GOP lawmaker Claudia Tenney asks Merrick Garland to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office

[Eugene]

GOP lawmaker asks Merrick Garland to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office (NBC News)

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., said in a letter to the attorney general that she has “grave concerns” about Biden following special counsel Robert Hur’s report.

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden from office after special counsel Robert Hur’s report said that while the president should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, he does suffer from a poor memory.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/gop-lawmaker-asks-merrick-garland-invoke-25th-amendment-remove-biden-o-rcna138112

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... and so it begins.

[CrispyQ]

1. Marge is on it.

JFC.

[Deuxcents]

2. Had to know they'd jump all over this..so did Hur, imo

[Scrivener7]

3. 3..2..1.. for Garland to look into it to avoid the appearance of partiality.

[The Magistrate]

4. I Think We Are Pretty Much Done With Garland, Sir

"He made two mistakes. His second was making the first, like it always is. That's all you get: Two mistakes."

[GuppyGal]

23. We sent a toy poodle into a pitbull fight....Ya DONE !!!! nt

[Takket]

5. good luck with that

[Captain Zero]

6. When is Hur done? Is his report completed now?

Biden should have the AG dismiss Hur if his report is signed and completed.

[getagrip_already]

17. on the contrary, keep him in place with nothing to do.....

That way he can't run to the press or go to congress and attend hearings. He will have to clear everything through the doj.

Oh right, garland. what was I thinking.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. I believe the VP is the one to invoke/initiate the 25th, not the AG

Although a majority of the cabinet has to agree.

Harris should tell Tenney to Go Fuck Herself, and let that become the headline for Super Bowl weekend.

[getagrip_already]

20. yeah, i guess it would be too much to ask them to actually read the constitution.....

It can only start with the vp. The house, and the doj has no role in invoking the 25th.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. No words that won't get me banned.

[Johonny]

9. Pretty sure that's not how the 25th works

The AG doesn't have the power alone to remove a president.

I have grave concerns about Rep Tenney getting off ass and doing their job. Until that happens, telling other people their job seems comical.

[BlueKota]

24. I highly doubt she's read the Constitution

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. She can go straight to hell.

Hopefully, she's being primaried.

[BlueKota]

25. Unfortunately she represents my district

which has a lot of dumbass rednecks in it. They still voted for Chris Collins even though he was already indicted on felony charges by election time. They’d vote for a cockroach as long as there was a R next to it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. My deepest sympathies to you.

I've visited that part of New York a couple of times, and knew it was a Republican area.

I'm lucky to live in the Chicago suburbs where there aren't any Repuke office holders for miles.

[BlueKota]

32. Thank you!

Luckily we usually are able to keep our Senate seats blue, because of the cities.

[Coventina]

11. Fuck Garland. I'm over making excuses for his totally shitty performance.

[onenote]

12. Someone should give Tenney a copy of the 25th amendment because she definitely hasn't read it.

It nowhere provides a mechanism for the Attorney General to "invoke" the 25th amendment on his own. It provides that if the VP and a majority of the cabinet transmit to the Senate and House a declaration that the President is unable to perform the powers and duties of the office, the VP becomes acting president until the president transmits a message saying that no such inability exists, at which point he resumes his position. Thereafter, the VP and a majority of the cabinet would have to send another message to the House and Senate declaring the president can't perform the powers and duties of the office and it would then require the House and Senate, by a 2/3 vote in each body, to find that the president is unable to perform the powers and duties of the presidency and the VP would again become acting president.

Obviously, not of the requirements for invoking the 25th have been or are going to be met with regard to Biden. There is not a single example of him being unable to carry out the duties of the office. That he is able to carry out the powers and duties of the office will be demonstrated conclusively a month from now when he carries out his constitutional duty to report to Congress on the State of the Union.

Someone in the House should introduce a resolution to expel Tenney for ignoring her duty to uphold the Constitution.

[Dave says]

22. "not a single example of him being unable to carry out the duties of the office"

On the contrary, there is example after example of the really great job Biden is doing as President. He is undoubtedly one of our best Presidents.

These Russian red clowns that own the Republican Party just make me sick. How can they be the way they are? Their mothers didn’t properly toilet train them? The bullies in kindergarten humiliated them so bad they’re unconsciously exacting revenge? What?

[snowybirdie]

13. Ok Claudia

Now how ya gonna get rid of Kamala? Fool!

[brush]

14. And one poster on this board repeatedly keeps saying the Hur report plus the winger co;mments...

are not damaging to Biden.

[ms liberty]

27. If you're talking about the poster I'm thinking about...

I told them that while technically the report cleared Biden, it was buried by the salacious and insulting editorialization. They don't need to talk about the documents anymore, they can smear him with this.
The only good thing about this mess is that at least it's February and Biden has plenty of time to prove them wrong.

[brush]

29. That's the one.

[grumpyduck]

15. And how the fuck was Hur qualified

to make a diagnosis-wannabe? Is he a neurologist too? Or a psychiatrist?

Claudia, go back under your rock. More pandering to maga idiots.

[Ocelot II]

16. Evidently she hasn't actually read the 25th Amendment.

And maybe a few of the participants in this thread who seem to think horrible, stupid Republican tool AG Garland has any power over this process might want to read it, too.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Complaining to the Attorney General doesn't do a damn thing. The Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet secretaries (the AG is only one of those; there are 15 of them) have to attest in writing that the president is unable to do his job. Does anybody think that's actually going to happen - that VP Harris and at least eight members of the Cabinet are going to agree that Biden is unable to discharge the duties of his office? It's just another performance, like fake impeachment, and it will go nowhere.

[crickets]

18. Just so. It was a follow-up, for the media hit. smh.

[struggle4progress]

19. "Let's impeach Biden! How about Granholm? Then let's impeach Mayorkas!

Well, how about we demand Biden be removed under the 25th amendment?"

Maybe she could work with Empty Greene on a resolution to censure "Jewish space lasers"

[orangecrush]

21. Knew this was coming

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Is she commiting the crime of Elder Abuse?

Would she do this to every senior under these circumstances? Will she do it to Trump who thinks Haley is Pelosi?

[cbabe]

28. If I may paraphrase a friend of ours: Russian tool go f yourself.

[Mike Nelson]

30. Yikes!

... I have grave concerns about GOP lawmaker Claudia Tenney - I don't believe AG Merrick Garland can invoke 25th Amendment to remove Biden. Someone tell Claudia that the VP is a young woman - and will other chances to be President Harris!