Section 2 provides for the president to appoint a ... This is exactly the situation for which the 25th Amendment was created.

The act contains a number of important provisions, but today it is Section 2 of the act that continues to have the greatest impact. Adopted essentially as an enforcement mechanism for the 15th ...

Therefore, while the calls for invoking Section Four of the 25th Amendment may again be loud, the prospects of these calls emanating from within the Biden administration are virtually nil.

The 25th Amendment is concerned with some kind of impairment that renders a president unable to do his job. For present purposes, its key provision is Section 4: Whenever the Vice President and a ...

The first reason pertains to the appropriate function of the amendment. The 25th Amendment’s fourth section (the relevant section for Douthat’s purposes) employs the broad formulation of a ...