I KNOW RIGHT, WHAT A COINCIDENCE A GEM HAS THAT VIEW (Trump actually repeatedly called him a "gem," I was nearly sick)
if the indictment and trial of a sitting President is deemed to make them incapable of discharging "the powers and duties of the office", then it would be an entirely legit use of the 25th Amendment to make the VP acting president for the duration of the trial.
Oh that's good! Would deal with both the "nobody should be above the law" and "but he still needs to run the country" aspects. Of course then we'd be stuck in Mike Pence's Handmaid's Tale LARP having burial services for our used tampons, but hey.
-- Although following your idea that Pence has to resign like Agnew did before the impeachment trigger can be pulled, maybe Pence will be brought down by associations with Manafort -- didn't Manafort PICK him? And Pence was not out of the loop for those convos about "we have dirt on Hillary," either.
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I KNOW RIGHT, WHAT A COINCIDENCE A GEM HAS THAT VIEW (Trump actually repeatedly called him a "gem," I was nearly sick)
if the indictment and trial of a sitting President is deemed to make them incapable of discharging "the powers and duties of the office", then it would be an entirely legit use of the 25th Amendment to make the VP acting president for the duration of the trial.
Oh that's good! Would deal with both the "nobody should be above the law" and "but he still needs to run the country" aspects. Of course then we'd be stuck in Mike Pence's Handmaid's Tale LARP having burial services for our used tampons, but hey.
-- Although following your idea that Pence has to resign like Agnew did before the impeachment trigger can be pulled, maybe Pence will be brought down by associations with Manafort -- didn't Manafort PICK him? And Pence was not out of the loop for those convos about "we have dirt on Hillary," either.