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 Ward Clark: The Democrats already froze befuddled Joe Biden out of the presidential campaign, and one can hardly blame them; the Biden reelection effort looked like it was going to deliver the Democrats a catastrophic loss in November. Imagine things being so bad that Kamala Harris looks to be the better alternative! That's where they were, and invoking that big vaudevillian hook from stage left to yank old Joe out of the picture was, candidly, the smart thing to do. Might they go the next step, though, and invoke the 25th Amendment to take the declining President Biden out of the picture altogether? Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor at The Hill, has some interesting thoughts, not least of which is that this invocation of the 25th may not be necessary. MacKinnon writes: This is already the most surreal presidential election of our lifetimes. I  wrote   several   times  in this space over the last two years that I never believed Biden would be the nominee, ...

American Action News: On the afternoon of July 21, the Democratic Party effectively stole an election. Fully 87% of the vote in this year’s Democratic presidential primaries — 14.4 million of the ballots cast — were discarded, sending shockwaves through the political landscape. These voters’ choice for president will not be on the ticket in November. President Joe Biden is no longer the presumptive Democratic nominee. This unprecedented move raises serious questions about the integrity of our elections, the role of political elites, and the fundamental democratic principle that voters choose their representatives. For context, our presidential primary system functions a lot like the Electoral College. Voters cast ballots for delegates, who ultimately meet and vote for office seekers. Now, in public perception, these two acts are inseparable. When voters cast a ballot for president, they believe they are voting for the candidate, not electors. Likewise, voters in primary elections be...

 DC Daily Journal: ... So the damage control of Biden and his allies is only going to go so far. In fact, at the time this article is being written, the tag of “25th Amendment” is trending on Twitter (also known as X). Many are saying that this is a situation that deserves the invoking of the 25th Amendment, as it appears Joe Biden is not fit to run the nation as the President of the United States. Those calls for the invocation of the 25th Amendment are growing louder and louder. So much so, that now there’s representatives in the U.S. House chamber in Congress who are literally preparing filings for Joe Biden to be removed lawfully as a result of the requirements of the 25th Amendment. In the wake of Thursday night’s presidential debate, Republican Texas Representative Chip Roy announced his intention to introduce a resolution aimed at removing President Joe Biden from office. Roy shared his plans in a post on the social media platform X on Friday morning, revealing that he will ...

 Victor Davis Hanson: As Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, there still roared a left-wing revolution, a woke madness spreading through popular culture and Congress, much of which he indirectly has aided and abetted. It has redefined not just politics but the rules of the presidency. And the eventual casualty of these radical shifts in protocols and customs will be—Joe Biden. Take impeachment, which heretofore had been rare and has still never led to a Senate conviction. Prior to Trump, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were the only presidents to have been impeached (Richard Nixon resigned to avoid it), and both were acquitted in the Senate. Yet leftist congressional representatives introduced articles of impeachment the very first week Trump was in office, on the absurd allegation of profiting from his office (the presidency cost the Trump corporations hundreds of millions). The House later went on to impeach him twice, without writs of “treason” and “bribery” or even “high ...

 Joe Squires: ... So, Kamala Harris becoming the President via the 25th Amendment means the Democrats lose their tie-breaking vote in the Senate, and without a 51st vote, there is no way for the Democrats to break a tie in the Senate in order to confirm a replacement Vice President. They are effectively stuck. But the question is also whether or not the Democrats even  want  Harris to be in charge. Her polling is  absolutely dreadful . There are a lot of whispers in the background about her being unable to even run a political office. The Biden team doesn’t seem happy with her, Democratic leadership is staying silent about her, and the media is not even trying to cover her out of fear it would make her look worse (and, given her track record, it absolutely would). She is probably the one person Democrats are less enthused about right now than Biden. And, between Biden, Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, there doesn’t seem to be a sound leader among the Democrat...

 Washington Examiner: Mark Levin says it is time to start talking about using impeachment or the 25th Amendment against President  Joe Biden  to remove the "most disastrous president in modern American history" from office. The conservative commentator, who commands a large following on the Right, took aim at Biden's handling of the border situation and the coronavirus pandemic, making the case to fellow  Fox News  host  Sean Hannity  on Wednesday that the Democratic commander in chief violated the Constitution. After a series of insults, Levin said Biden has "the  border  wide open in violation of our immigration laws" and invoked the administration's  eviction moratorium , which came this week despite a Supreme Court decision in June ruling an earlier eviction moratorium could only be extended by Congress. He also raised concerns about the health of the U.S. population, alluding to a  Justice Department legal fight against Texas ...

Red States: ... Rosenstein disbursed her of the conspiracy saying he never was involved in any such scheme, that he never recorded Trump and never suggested he could be removed by the 25th Amendment. But while she was doing that, she made the case for the Administration. She got Rosenstein to say that he agreed that there was no evidence of obstruction of justice. She kept pressing and Rosenstein said that “he agrees that there was no evidence of a crime” by Trump. He also confirmed that no one was in favor of prosecution. Thanks, Mazie, for destroying Democrats’ lie yet again. Law professor Jonathan Turley picked up on it. Sen. Hirono seems to be making a case for the Administration. She just prompted Rosenstein to say that he agreed with the view that there was no evidence of obstruction of justice. She prompted Rosenstein to say that “he agrees that there was no evidence of a crime” by Trump. — Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 3, 2020 …Hirono pressed Rosenstein o...

Washington Times: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday scolded CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta for asking a “ludicrous” question about Cabinet members allegedly discussing invoking the 25th Amendment against President Trump. During a press briefing at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, Mr. Acosta asked U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley if she ever heard of such discussions taking place inside the Trump administration. “I have never once been in the White House where that conversation has happened,” Mrs. Haley said. “I’m not aware of any Cabinet members that are even talking about that. It is completely and totally absurd. No one is questioning the president at all.” Mr. Pompeo added that he also had never heard any such discussion within the administration about invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows for a president to be removed by his own Cabinet under extraordinary circumstances. “I find the question ludicrous,” Mr. Pompeo said. “I’ve ...

James Robbins: Stop trying to diagnose our 'very stable genius' president. He might be right. The 25th Amendment was never intended to be a coup mechanism. It was put in place for times when a president was legitimately, unambiguously disabled. The amendment was put in place for a president that is in a coma or is on the operating table under anesthesia. Democrats use "unfit" as a code word for he is not a liberal.

Power Line: After three months, the Democrats still refuse to accept the result of November’s election–an idea they denounced when they thought they were going to win. Now, as Byron York notes, many Democrats are scheming to remove President Trump from office. How to do it, though, is a knotty problem. They could impeach him, only the Republicans control the House. Speaker Ryan hasn’t scheduled any impeachment hearings, last I knew. And no one has plausibly suggested what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has committed in the last month. Then, too, for Trump to be removed from office, 67 Senators would have to vote for removal, and the Democrats only have 48 senators. So talk has shifted to the 25th Amendment, which provides procedures for temporary or permanent replacement of a president who becomes disabled. Specifically, Democrat Congressmen like Jackie Speier and Earl Blumenauer are focusing on Section 4 of the amendment, which says that if the vice president and a majority o...