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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:18 PM Sep 2018

Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

CNN By Manu Raju, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Updated 5:30 PM ET, Thu September 6, 2018

(CNN)Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seizing on an explosive op-ed from an anonymous administration official, said Thursday that it's time to use constitutional powers to remove President Donald Trump office if top officials don't think he can do the job.

"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," Warren told CNN. "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 ... Everyone of these officials have sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. It's time for them to do their job."

The hard-charging comments by the potential 2020 presidential candidate come in the wake of the stunning New York Times piece where an anonymous official raises deep concerns about the President and contends there were some initial conversations to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the President from office. The White House has aggressively pushed back on the piece, calling the author a traitor and a coward.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-25th-amendment/index.html
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Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office (Original Post) workinclasszero Sep 2018 OP
Love it BeyondGeography Sep 2018 #1
exactly right bigtree Sep 2018 #2
Oh please FBaggins Sep 2018 #3
I really hope the Times did their due diligence on this one ... mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #4

FBaggins

(26,754 posts)
3. Oh please
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:37 PM
Sep 2018

I like Warren, but this reads like she’s worried that the 2020 candidates on the Judiciary panel are getting all the attention and wants to score “resist” points.

She knows very well that 25 doesn’t get us anywhere. If she had the votes to uphold it, she would have the votes to impeach and remove

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I really hope the Times did their due diligence on this one ...
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:38 PM
Sep 2018

Granted it's just an op-ed, not regular reporting, but it would still end looking real bad if they got played, Rather-style ... (or perhaps I should say Rove-style)

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