The House formally asked Vice President Mike Pence to disempower President Trump using the Amendment 25, although Pence discarded it
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The House of Representatives voted tonight to pass a resolution calling for President Trump to be removed from office by Amendment 25 in the wake of the violent attack on the United States Capitol last week.
The resolution, presented by Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland , asked Vice President Mike Pence “to immediately use his Powers under section 4 of the Amendment 25 to convene and mobilize the main officials of the executive departments of the cabinet to declare what it is obvious to a horrified nation: that the president cannot successfully fulfill the functions of his office. ”
Pence rejected the call to invoke the Amendment 25 in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Tuesday.
Lawmakers, escorted by armed guards to a heavily fortified Capitol, took the action just before midnight. The final vote was 1200 against 205 to implore Pence to declare Trump “Unable to perform the functions of his position.”
The resolution amounts to a symbolic reprimand for the president, as many lawmakers reacted with outrage to the deadly attack on Capitol Hill by part e of Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election results of 2020, reported CNN.
What steps to follow
House Democrats are now rapidly moving toward impeachment of the president for the second time as a result of the attack on Capitol Hill, which Trump incited after repeatedly making false claims that his election had been stolen and asking his supporters to fight the election result .
House Democrats Representatives plan to vote Wednesday to impeach Trump, setting a vote for it, just a week after rioters invaded the Capitol.
Democrats will seek this Wednesday to accuse the president of the position of “incitement to insurrection” , an effort that has been supported by at least four Republican legislators: Adam Kizinger, Congressman from Illinois; Liz Cheney, congresswoman from Wyoming; John Katko, Congressman from New York; and Fred Upton, congressman from Michigan.
The New York Times also revealed that the Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, was satisfied by a possible impeachment against Trump and believes that a possible impeachment could help purge his party of supporters of the current President.
