Warren Pushes Use of 25th Amendment Against Trump
The effort to have President Donald Trump removed under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has moved to the upper chamber, at least according to CNN, and all courtesy of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The possibility of having Trump removed under the amendment, which allows for a president to be taken out of power and replaced with the vice president if “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” has long been floated by far-left members of the Democrat caucus in the House, most notably Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Ted Lieu of California.
However, the movement gathered new steam after it was mentioned in the infamous anonymous Op-Ed published in The New York Times purportedly by a member of the “resistance” within the Trump administration.
“Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president,” the Op-Ed reads.
“But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.”
That has Warren telling the official network of #TheResistance that it’s time for administration officials “to do their job,” clearly pushing for them to remove Trump from office.
“If senior administration officials think the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment,” the Massachusetts Democrat told CNN on Thursday.
“The Constitution provides for a procedure whenever the vice president and senior officials think the president can’t do his job. It does not provide that senior officials go around the president — take documents off his desk, write anonymous Op-Eds” and the like, she continued.
“Every one of these officials have sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States,” Warren said. “It’s time for them to do their job.”
She also insisted that basing the decision to remove a president from office on an anonymous Op-Ed wouldn’t cause a constitutional crisis whatsoever.
“What kind of a crisis do we have if senior officials believe that the president can’t do his job and then refuse to follow the rules that have been laid down in the Constitution?” Warren said.
“They can’t have it both ways. Either they think that the president is not capable of doing his job, in which case they follow the rules in the Constitution, or they feel that the president is capable of doing his job, in which case they follow what the president tells them to do.”
It’s worth noting that Warren wasn’t calling on Democrats to use the 25th Amendment. She was calling on resisters in the White House, who would be the only ones who could do so anyhow.
All of this wouldn’t even be fine if Warren could point to the single administration member who was saying this. Nobody can — and while your money in the office pool may be on Larry Kudlow or Mike Pompeo, you know roughly as much as she does. This means we don’t know anything about the motivations of the individual involved or whether he or she can give an accurate judgment.
Even then, the person who wrote the much-cited, very [citation needed] Op-Ed itself agreed the 25th Amendment wouldn’t be the way to do go about it. If Warren is so convinced this Op-Ed should function as the (I’m so sorry) lodestar in terms of dealing with the president, why wouldn’t she then take the author’s own advice? Does the senator only believe them to the point where it stops being convenient?
So what is this? It could be a sign the Democrats are about to do something stupid, suicidal and impossible. Or it could be more of Warren’s presidential posturing for 2020. This was her “Spartacus moment.” It was every bit as self-serving and devoid of political meaning and courage as Sen. Cory Booker’s during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
But either way, it sure sounded good to CNN viewers, right?
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