The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-12-2021, 05:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I've come to learn too much about the senate rules and the constitution.  You can invoke the 25th amendment with a group specified by law, not the cabinet.  That is in the 25th amendment.  To get a law passed, you have to convene the senate.  This the majority and minority leaders could do, being McConnell and Schiff.  McConnell could block either scheduling of the 25 not the cabinet resolution, or an impeachment resolution.  So, there are three ways of blocking anything.  As McConnell is the master of obstruction, obstruction is certainly possible.

But if he uses any of those three, McConnell owns whatever Trump does.

25th Section 4 Wrote:Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department14 or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

McConnell owns whatever Trump says or does from here on anyway, he's the only Republican leader that's left.  The Democrats will make sure of that from here on.