{"id":315474,"date":"2017-07-02T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T06:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-to-remove-trump-for-mental-reasons-gaining-democratic-support\/"},"modified":"2017-07-02T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T06:45:44","slug":"bill-to-remove-trump-for-mental-reasons-gaining-democratic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-to-remove-trump-for-mental-reasons-gaining-democratic-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to remove Trump for mental reasons gaining Democratic support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least 25 Democrats in the House of Representatives support a bill that would give them a path to remove US President Donald Trump from office if he is proved\u00a0mentally\u00a0unfit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legislation, introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin, would create an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity, an 11-member panel made up of mostly physicians and psychiatrists, to judge the president\u2019s mental fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>The effort appears to be based on the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution which lays out the rules for succession in case of presidential disability.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment was adopted in 1967 after the assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy to establish procedure in the case a president is incapacitated. One clause in that amendment allows for the president to be removed if the vice president and either a majority of the president&#8217;s cabinet or a majority of Congress sign off on it.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, is urging more colleagues&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/02\/527147\/Bill-to-remove-Trump-gaining-momentum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 Democrats in the House of Representatives support a bill that would give them a path to remove US President Donald Trump from office if he is proved\u00a0mentally\u00a0unfit. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin, would create an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity, an 11-member panel made up of mostly physicians and psychiatrists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}