2020 Election - The curtain starts coming down

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Meanwhile...

Cabinet members discuss invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump

Republican leaders discuss invoking the 25th Amendment

And apparently little or no overlap between the two groups...

Discussing invoking the 25th Amendment is all well and good, but what does that amendment actually say?

Ah. Thank you, Wikipedia.

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 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.

So it would be simply a token show. The Cabinet says he can't do the job, he says he can, the Cabinet says again that he can't, and then Congress has to pass a two-thirds majority vote to say he can't. Even with what they just went through a few hours ago at the price of a human life, I don't see a two-thirds majority happening for anything for a few decades.

Probably be easier to impeach him a second time.