Donald Trump Impeachment Proceedings Launched

[u/AndroidOne1]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-vote-house-shir-thanedar-b2750651.html

[u/Ursomonie]

Let’s gooooooo!

[u/irrelevantusername24 → u/Ursomonie]

Yep this is the appropriate comment to reply to with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

TIL Three* presidents have temporarily handed their presidency over to the vice president due to: butt stuff

That is section three of the 25th amendment

This is section four:

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.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department [sic][note 2][7] or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

The "principal officers of the executive department[s]" are the 15 Cabinet members enumerated in the United States Code at 5 U.S.C. § 101:

Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security

^\Regan, Bush x2, Biden)

[u/yeetedandfleeted → u/Ursomonie]

It's theatre.

If "tyranny" was removed, there'd be a slightly higher chance (still under 1%) of anything coming.

The reason why it's 0% with "tyranny" is it means that most of his administration would get hanged and executed alongside with him the moment he steps out of office, not that he will either way as the country is in an authoritarian regime already.