![]() ![]() ![]() “Now if the obligations of mounting a legal defense truly became too time-consuming for Trump,” Obeidallah wrote, “there’s an easy remedy: the 25th Amendment. ![]() But it was far from the first-and certainly won’t be the last-speculation about using the “removal for disability” amendment to separate President Trump from the powers and duties of the office.ĭean Obeidallah wrote for The Daily Beast earlier this year that the 25th Amendment might be a way around the Department of Justice’s current guidance that a sitting president cannot be indicted. This fall, The New York Times reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had raised with Justice Department and FBI officials back in 2017 the possibility of declaring Donald Trump unable to serve as president via the 25th Amendment-specifically, saying that he might prove able to persuade then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to mount this effort. ![]()
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