6 Key Points on Efforts to Oust Trump in Final Days
President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the Save America rally Wednesday just south of the White House before rioters breached the Capitol. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
After the riot at the Capitol, congressional Democrats increasingly are calling for the removal of President Donald Trump before his term expires Jan. 20, either through a second impeachment or by invoking the 25th Amendment.
Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., an assistant House speaker, said lawmakers could vote on impeachment within a week.
After vowing never to concede the 2020 presidential contest at a rally Wednesday, Trump announced the next day that he is committed to an orderly transition to the presidency of Joe Biden.
Washington [US], January 8 (ANI): After a chaotic situation unfolded at the US Capitol following a pro-Trump mob swarming the House and Senate chambers on Wednesday, calls for the removal of President Donald Trump using the 25th Amendment have intensified in the country.
Vice President Pence opposed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump
Business Insider first reported that Pence would not back the move, citing advisers to the vice president.
Following the violent riots at the Capitol building Wednesday, a number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers urged Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. The 1967 amendment to the Constitution ensures that the government remains in operation should a sitting president be deemed unfit to perform presidential duties.
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A majority of the Trump Cabinet and Pence would have to agree the president is unfit to serve for him to be removed.