While Democrats are still debating whether to continue supporting President Joe Biden or replace him with a younger candidate, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has put forward an compelling proposal: The 25th Amendment removing him from office.
While Democrats calling on Biden to drop out of the race see his candidacy as a threat to their prospects of retaining control of the White House in November, Johnson sees the president’s condition as Danger for the country.
Asked again whether he supported Representative Chip Roy’s decision to call on Vice President Kamala Harris to exploit the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove Mr Biden from office, Mr Johnson said most Americans and Republicans would agree that it was appropriate for her to take this historic step.
“There is a time for everything under heaven; desperate times call for desperate measures. I think the 25th Amendment is appropriate here,” Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, said Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.
The process for removing a president from office after January 25.th The change would require a series of steps on the part of members of his Cabinet and Congress. First, Vice President Kamala Harris would have to recruit enough Cabinet members to support such a move and draft a statement that would be sent to the President pro tempore of the Senate – a position currently held by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) – and House Speaker Johnson.
Harris would then become acting president. However, if Biden contests the declaration, he will send a declaration of his own to the same congressional leaders, arguing that he is still fit to hold office.
Harris and the majority of Cabinet members would have four days to respond to Biden’s comments, at which point a two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature would be needed to confirm Harris as acting president.
Republicans have repeatedly sharply criticized Democratic politicians and media figures who tried to cover up Biden’s obvious cognitive problems. Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana pointed out the hypocrisy of those who called for Biden’s resignation even though he was already nominated, while constantly claiming to value democracy.
Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise pointed out that Democrats are considering “invalidating the votes of 14 million Democratic voters in the primaries who chose Joe Biden as their candidate.”
“Think about it. The party that loves to lecture people about democracy is sitting in a smoke-filled room trying to force out of office the presidential candidate democratically elected by Democratic voters,” Scalise said.
Johnson insisted that the 25th The amendment was the best way to deal with Biden, who has repeatedly rejected calls to drop out of the race. Lawmakers argued it was “not a good situation for us to have a commander in chief who is not at his best, who can only work a few hours a day and who cannot answer questions in complete sentences.”
The question is: Could Vice President Harris and her Democratic colleagues gain enough support for such a plan?
