If the 25th amendment, allowing for a cabinet majority to remove a President is not invoked, Congress is prepared to move forward with impeachment, she said.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Donald Trump to be urgently removed from power, branding him “a very dangerous person who should not continue in office.”
“This is an emergency of the highest magnitude,” the top-ranking Democrat in Congress said as she urged Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment, one day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol with his encouragement in a bid to overturn the Presidential election results.
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If the 25th amendment, allowing for a cabinet majority to remove a President deemed unable to discharge his duties, is not invoked, Congress is prepared to move forward with impeachment, she said.
“I don’t think it’ll take long to get an answer from the Vice…