• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It never says physically incapacitated at all. It says:

    “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”

    If the president has a stroke and becomes a psychotic menace. Nervous breakdown and won’t leave his room…all sorts of things.

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      That’s the text all right, but the text also says that all the President has to do is present Congress with a “written declaration that no inability exists” to get his job back. So as long as the President has the mental acuity to write a letter, he gets his job back. Not a high bar at all, and your “psychotic menace” or “nervous breakdown” Presidents can still write a letter.