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

[Polybius]

Source: NBC News

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.

In a letter to Garland Thursday, Tenney expressed her “grave concerns” about Hur’s findings. She said that Hur’s reasons for not bringing charges against Biden, even though the president “knowingly and willfully removed, mishandled, and disclosed classified documents” over a period of decades, were “alarming.”

Hur said the president’s practices had presented “serious risks to national security,” and described in his report several instances of the president suffering from memory loss. He added that part of the reason he didn’t pursue charges against Biden was because the president could portray himself as an “elderly man with poor memory” who would be sympathetic to a jury.

Tenney criticized that reasoning in her letter to Garland.

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

[kimbutgar]

1. Another repuke trying to gain points with TFA!

Auditioning for VP or on his cabinet. These idiots are so cultish!

[LiberalFighter]

2. What makes her think Garland can do it?

[mwooldri]

3. On his own, he can't.

It needs a majority of the cabinet and the Vice President.

[Ocelot II]

4. It's more performative bullshit; if she'd actually ever read it

she'd know that the AG doesn't have the power to invoke the 25th Amendment - it has to be the Vice President plus a majority of the 15 cabinet officers, attesting in writing that the president can't discharge the duties of his office. And even if that happens, the president can come back and say, basically, Fuck you people; I can, too, and he gets his job back.

Or, maybe she does know what it says but she doesn't care because she's performing for the base. BTW, did you guys know that Al-Qaeda is Arabic for "the base"? Kinda fits, doesn't it?

[PortTack]

5. God I hate those sick f..ks!

[Qutzupalotl]

6. That's not...how this works.

[Randomthought]

7. GOP must really be scared of Biden

If they are willing for a black woman to become president

[Historic NY]

8. She in a target seat here in NY a tiny shift in the district and she's history.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

9. Fuck you, Merrick "Sneaky" Garland. It's your damn fault

[Coventina]

10. Garland will probably appoint a special counsel to investigate.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. I believe Garland would do it

Well, he'll try anyway. If enough pressure is put on him, I do believe it's something he would consider.

[forgotmylogin]

11. The unmitigated gall. n/t

[usaf-vet]

12. Now WHEN are we going to start playing serious hardball with theses assholes on the right?

This is an equal stunt to Comey / Hillary before that election.

Either we go for the jugular, or we risk the right-wing takeover of our government.

They have shown us their rules for the 2024 election. Are we in or not?

Hur... should be looking for a new job before the day ends.

[appleannie1]

14. And what does she think of the 90 odd boxes of Classified documents at Mar a Lago stacked in a bathroom & ballroom?