LinkedIn on Saturday, September 5, 2026
The 25th Amendment was certified, after having been ratified by 38 states, in February of 1967. Our founding fathers had nothing to do with it. Until the 25th Amendment, impeachment was the Constitution’s only tool for removing a President.
Most people I know think that the 25th Amendment is how, other than by impeachment, the Constitution allows senior officials in a given Administration – or others “as Congress may by law provide” – to remove the sitting President who is unable to do his or her job. That’s not entirely true. According to Section 4 of the Amendment…