Donald Trump still until 20.To see sitting on the levers of power in January, prepares many Democrats, but also some Republicans headaches.What has to happen so that the US president is replaced prematurely?
What is Donald Trump drives on the last days of his term?The incumbent US President has meanwhile condemned the fatal riots on and in the Capitol and promised a smooth handover to his successor Joe Biden.But trust in Trump's words has completely gone out among the Democrats, but also with some Republicans.The worry about a president who has nothing more to lose is too great, but is still sitting on the levers of power for almost two weeks.
Many congress members would prefer Trump immediately than on 20.Bring on January from the Oval Office.Even some Republican politicians speak out to throw Trump out of the White House as quickly as possible.
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One possibility would be an office..First of all, the absolute majority in the House of Representatives is necessary.In addition, the senators with a two-thirds majority would have to vote for the premature expression of the President.In the Senate, a number of republican senators would also have to vote for the detachment of Trump.
An "impeachment" has failed last year.With their majority of Senate at the time, the Republicans prevented that Trump "impeached", that is, was discontinued.The Democrats had accused Trump's abuse of power and disability of the investigation into the Ukraine affair.
A new attempt to transport Trump from the office is hardly promising.On the one hand, such a procedure would probably need more time, on the other hand, more and more Trump Republicans turn, but the Democrats would far from have a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
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Another option, Trump before the 20.To promote January from the White House, the 25 offers.Additional items of the constitution.The latter says that the Vice President moves to the presidential office when the office becomes vacant.This addition has been anchored in the American constitution since 1967.
"The 25.However, additional items have been discussed for a long time, that goes back very far into American history, "explains US politics expert David Sirakov, director of the Atlantic Academy," learned something again "in the NTV podcast.The background to the discussions at that time were president "where afterwards it came out that they had actually been unable to office for a long time".The political scientist Woodrow names Wilson, US President from 1913 to 1921.
"The pressure has increased increasingly to find a clear regulation on how to create the orderly transition from a president to Vice President if the president is no longer able to fill out the office," says Sirakov and also refers to the deadly assassination attemptOn John F.kennedy."A concrete proposal was made under this impression and ultimately implemented."
In the event of the elevation of office, death or the resignation of the President, the Vice President becomes the new number one in the States.This says paragraph one of the 25.Additional items.To date, this was only used in 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned in the course of the Watergate affair and Gerald Ford became the new president.
Paragraph two regulates what happens when the office of vice president becomes free.In this case, the president names a vice president "who takes the office after confirmation by a majority decision of both houses of the congress".So it says in the constitution.Gerald Ford became Vice President in 1973.Because he rose to the president a year later, the Vice President post was vacant again.New York's long -time governor Nelson Rockefeller therefore found its way into office, also on the basis of paragraph two.
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"There are also three examples of a temporary transition between President and Vice President," says Sirakov and refers to paragraph three of the 25.Additional items.In this case, President himself declares themselves unable to take office for a short time."In 1985 Ronald Reagan and 2002 and 2007 George W.Bush handled so when they had to be in anesthesia for a short time due to medical interventions."In all three cases, intestinal mirroring was the reason for the meantime.
The 25.Additional items offer another way to discontinue the president.The key is in fourth paragraph.There it is said that the Vice President, together with the majority of the ministers, can declare the president as unable."It would be more about the president of a sudden serious illness.You can of course interpret this as you want, "explains Sirakov.In this case, the Vice President with the majority of the cabinet would have to inform the congress that the president is unable to fill out his office."The Vice President would then take over the business temporarily."
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In the current example, this would mean that Vice President Mike Pence would initially have the majority of the ministers and would have to inform the President's incapacity to the congress in writing.Pence would be a provisional president, but Trump could appeal.Then the congress would have to decide.To finally use the President with the help of the 25.Additional items aus dem Amt zu werfen, braucht es dort eine Zwei-Drittel-Mehrheit.
That would be an unprecedented process in the long history of American democracy.As long as Trump is in office, nothing seems to be impossible.However, according to US media reports, "Vice" Pence has so far rejected Trump prematurely.
And political scientist Sirakov also considers the application of additional items 25, paragraph four, to be unrealistic: "From the point of view of Trump, Pence has not shown itself loyal in the course of recognition of the election results.But that is simply because he had no other option under constitutional law.He swings politically on the same wavelength as Trump and has always been loyal alongside the president in recent years."
