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Trump set Tuesday at 8 p.m. E.T. as the deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face U.S. bombs, despite what he has called “productive” talks towards a cease-fire. Israel has already attacked Iranian civil energy infrastructure, including Iran’s South Pars gas field and oil depots across Tehran, potentially violating international humanitarian law. Trump’s open threat of what could also constitute war crimes has led some lawmakers and critics to call for his Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
“Even blowing up a fraction [of Iran’s bridges and power plants] will kill thousands of innocent people who work in those power plants and travel on the nation’s roads. That’s also a war crime,” Murphy said in other posts. “And for what? To force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz WHICH WAS OPEN BEFORE TRUMP STARTED BOMBING IRAN??? This is pure insanity. It won’t work. It will just permanently stain America. GOP leaders should call Congress back into session this week to end this war.”
The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes procedures for presidential succession and for replacing or declaring a President unable to perform their duties. While highly unlikely, and unprecedented other than temporary voluntary uses, here’s what to know about the 25th Amendment and calls for its invocation against Trump.
Section three states that if the President is incapacitated or anticipates becoming incapacitated, such as due to illness, he can volunteer to temporarily transfer his powers and duties to the Vice President.
Since the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 following the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, sections one, two, and three have been invoked on a handful of occasions. Section two was invoked in 1973 when Gerald Ford was appointed Vice President after Spiro Agnew’s resignation, and sections one and two were invoked in 1974 when Ford became President after Richard Nixon’s resignation and to appoint Ford’s Vice President.
But section four, which outlines the process for involuntary removal of a sitting President, has never been invoked. It is this section that Trump’s detractors are now pointing to as they say his latest ultimatum, which Iran has rejected as an “incitement to war crimes” and which comes amid reported negotiations towards a cease-fire, is evidence of Trump’s “insanity.”
Calls for invoking section four grow
Other Democratic lawmakers echoed Ansari’s call. “The emperor has no clothes,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D, N.M.) posted on Sunday night, alongside a screenshot of Trump’s post. “Time for the #25thAmendment. Congress and the Cabinet must act.”
Former Congressman and prominent Never Trump Republican Joe Walsh posted, alongside a screenshot of Trump’s threat, “His Easter morning post. And just 2 days ago, one of his ‘religious advisors’ compared him to Jesus Christ. He will forever be a stain on this country. And the world. 25th Amendment. Now.”
Ty Cobb, who served as White House counsel during Trump’s first term and is now a prominent Trump critic, said on The Jim Acosta Show last Wednesday, “Given the fact that the Cabinet will not invoke the 25th Amendment for a man who is clearly insane—this war highlights that and these screeds that come out nightly, you know, at 2 a.m. or 4 a.m., or whatever time Trump decides to vent without oversight—it highlights the level of his insanity and depravity.”
In a lengthy post on X, former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who was once a MAGA standard-bearer but became increasingly disillusioned especially over the Administration’s handling of the Epstein Files, said, “Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”
Some, looking back at the past year in which war powers resolutions aimed at limiting Trump’s unilateral decisions to strike alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, take military action against Venezuela, and bomb Iran have largely failed, are skeptical of Congress’s ability to rein in the President.
Still, Trump himself admitted last month that his war strategy might lead some to try to invoke the 25th Amendment.“I can’t say what we’re going to do because if I did, I wouldn’t be sitting here for long,” the President said on March 26, even as he has repeatedly insisted the U.S. and Iran are in diplomatic talks. “They’d probably—what is it called? The 25th Amendment? They’d institute the 25th Amendment.”
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