It is known that there are essentially two ways a US president could be removed from office: through impeachment and conviction by the Senate, and through the section 4. No president has ever been removed by either measure – although three presidents have been impeached: including Trump, twice. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment Section 4: Declaration by vice president and cabinet members of president's inability Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. That leaves section 4 of the 25th amendment, designed to be used when a president is “unable to ...
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