Why the 25th Amendment Is a Dead End

Jonathan Bernstein: “The anonymous New York Times column by a ‘senior official in the Trump administration’ has people talking about the 25th amendment again. But the writer is absolutely correct: Trying to remove the president by that mechanism – an idea that apparently was batted around in ‘early whispers within the cabinet’ — would have failed, risking a serious constitutional crisis.”

“That’s because the relevant portions of the 25th amendment allowing the removal of a president ‘who is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office’ are poorly drafted, and are entirely useless for a situation in which the president contests his removal.”