There remains a lingering question of Biden's capacity to serve for another six months as president.
Here is the column: President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party's nominee solved an immediate problem for his party.
If a president is comatose, the incapacity is obvious and Section 4 allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to sign a declaration to Congress that a president is incapable of holding office.
Harris is eager to avoid the image of Brutus in the dispatching of the president.
The key to succession by defenestration is not to be seen as the hand that pushes the president out the window.
Section 4 provides that a president's fitness can be put before Congress when the "Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or such other body as Congress may by law provide." Previously Democrats have cited that language to suggest that they could create their own body to force former President Donald Trump out of office.
Rep. Jaime Raskin sponsored legislation called the Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act to create a commission empowered to examine a president to Congress on the president's capacity.
This is different than President Lyndon Johnson's decision on March 31, 1968, that "I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president." That was before any primaries.
A special counsel cited President Biden's diminished faculties as a reason not to indict him for unlawfully retaining and handling classified material.
Now, the president is effectively saying that, in addition to being allegedly too diminished to be prosecuted, he is too diminished to run for the office that he currently holds.
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