The Solution to the Third-Term Threat
Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg / Getty. The Entire Point of the 25th Amendment
There can be no confusion over who is president, even for a moment.
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Rules exist for what could come next, but they won’t prevent total chaos.
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If the president and the vice president become incapacitated simultaneously, the country could face a constitutional crisis.
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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment was never meant to be used to remove a terrible—albeit alert—president from office. But that’s not what the country has learned from Hollywood.
Klara Auerbach
