The 25th Amendment was supposed to prevent what just happened

Published May 21, 2025 5:00am ET



It is time for some serious congressional oversight. Not “oversight” like the J6 Committee — hijacked by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and bereft of legitimacy from before the first gavel fell — but more in the vein of the 9/11 Commission or the Iran-Contra Committee. Because we need answers on when former President Joe Biden‘s cognitive abilities became impaired and who participated in the cover-up of that disability. 

And Congress must at least begin to explore using the power the 25th Amendment provides it to change the method by which impaired presidents are replaced by vice presidents.

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