Rep. Kinzinger explains call to invoke 25th Amendment, says other Republicans agree with him

Ellise Shafer administratorVice President Mike Pence said he will not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office following the Jan.

Vice President Mike Pence said that he will not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office, saying that he did not think it was “in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our Constitution.”

The House of Representatives on Tuesday night will move forward with an effort to hold President Trump accountable for the role he played in inciting a deadly riot on Capitol Hill last week. In the late-evening, members of the chamber are expected to discuss asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment, which would remove Trump from office eight days ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPresident Donald Trump downplayed attempts to remove him from office nearly a week after a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S.

direct to your inboxMembers of Donald Trump's cabinet have discussed using the 25th amendment to remove the president from power before the end of his term.Pro-Trump protesters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on Wednesday night, after Mr Trump urged his supporters to march up to it in protest against Joe Biden's election win, in a siege that left five people dead.Mr Trump's term officially comes to an end on January 20 - but members of both parties are discussing how he could be

House Majority Whip James Clyburn said former Trump Cabinet members Elaine Chao and Betsy DeVos, who resigned in protest of the Capitol riots, were "running away" from their responsibility to invoke the 25th Amendment.  In an interview with CNN, Clyburn said that invoking the 25th, where the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members can agree to relieve the president of his duties, was preferable to launching another round of impeachment proceedings in the final days of the Trump

Calls by the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York — to remove President Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment demonstrate their profound ignorance of the Constitution.  In blaming Trump for "inciting" the criminal acts of those who attacked the U.S.

Lady Gaga is explaining why ousting Donald Trump from office using the 25th amendment is not the appropriate form of action right now.

Vice President Mike Pence intends to oppose calls from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Trump from office after the U.S. Capitol breach, Fox News confirmed Thursday.

President-elect Joe Biden has stayed mum amid calls from Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment or pursue articles of impeachment to thwart the last two weeks of the Trump presidency.  Under the 25th Amendment, presidential duties can be transferred to the vice president if the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members decide the president is unfit for office.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Sen.

Meghan McCain called for conservatives to "invoke the 25th Amendment" after the violent riots on Capitol Hill on Wednesday waged by a group of Trump supporters. "This is one of the great national tragedies of my lifetime.

These are dark days in the history of the United States, and no one is feeling them more intensely than Mike Pence. On Wednesday, the vice president admirably turned aside the president’s high-intensity demands that he shred the Constitution.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he did not support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump now but said he might change if there are new developments that warrant it.  "I don’t support invoking the 25th Amendment now.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Trump's immediate removal from office by way of the 25th Amendment for inciting a violent riot at the Capitol Wednesday in an attempt to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win. She joins with Sen.

Nancy Pelosi is calling for Donald Trump‘s removal immediately.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office.

Eli Countryman Meghan McCain, a co-host for ABC’s “The View” and daughter of late Sen. John McCain, said Thursday that Republicans must call upon the government to invoke the 25th Amendment following the prior day’s Capitol Hill mob.“I think that this is a good time to take a very hard look at where we are as a country and take a very hard look at where we are with President Trump,” McCain said on the show. “The bedrock of our democracy is the peaceful transition of power.