Last Friday, as the news of President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis grew into very pressing questions about the nature and severity of his symptoms, the news cycle became one about the 25th Amendment. A week later, though Trump appears to have largely recovered (at least for the time being), there’s even more talk of the 25th Amendment.
At a Friday press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin announced a new piece of legislation that would create “a commission on presidential capacity to discharge the powers and duties of the office.” Raskin, who wrote the legislation, pointed to language in Section 4 of the 25th Amendment as his constitutional basis for creating the commission:
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