Section 4 (Involuntary Transfer of Power): Creates a mechanism for the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the President physically or mentally unable to discharge the duties of the office. The Vice President instantly becomes Acting President. If the President disputes this claim, Congress is required to step in and vote; a two-thirds majority in both chambers is required to keep the Vice President in power.
the first section declares that if the President dies, resigns, or is REMOVED from office, the vice President becomes the President and, with a majority vote of both the House and the Senate ( simple majority ), appoint a new Vice President.
so, my guess is that the "plot" to remove Trump is for JD to declare Trump unfit, get the majority of the cabinet to agree, thus making Vance acting President... and then get the House and Senate to remove Trump with a 2/3rds vote in each chamber ( possible but unlikely ). At that point Vance becomes the President... and can nominate someone to be VP and have them confirmed by a simple majority vote in the House and Senate.
The only way for JD to get 2/3rds of both chambers would be to promise to remove the economic team of morons that Trump installed, remove all the tariffs, apologize to Iran for the war and beg them to re-instate the JOPA agreement ( telling Bibi to stuff it ), open the Strait of Hormuz... and hope that does enough to get republicans re-elected to the House and Senate in the mid-terms... all by no later than July this year ( by the time the oil buffers run out and we look at $8/gal gasoline and the EU is looking at no natural gas for the winter ). Democrats might well push to have ICE de-funded, the 1.776 B restitution fund eliminated, the ballroom canceled, the Arc d' Trump eliminated, and the East Wing rebuilt to original plans ( plus whatever underground hospital and war room is needed for the next President ). Oh, and the entire Trump family arrested and facing fraud and corruption charges ( insider trading, self dealing, etc ).
I am guessing that Robert Reich knows all this.
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