Member of the US House of Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has introduced a
bill that would create a special oversight committee to determine whether US
President Donald Trump has the mental capacity to serve as president, thereby
setting the stage to remove him from office under the 25th Amendment to the US
Constitution, which allows for a president who is mentally unfit to carry out
the duties of the office to be fired.
Alongside Raskin, 24 House Democrats have signed the bill, including the House
Judiciary Committee's ranking member, Representative John Conyers (D-MI), and
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), former Democratic National
Committee chair, according to the Free Beacon.
By way of explaining his motivation to initiate the proceedings, Raskin stated,
"In case of emergency, break glass," cited by Yahoo News.
"If you look at the record of things that have happened since January, it is
truly a bizarre litany of events and outbursts," the representative from
Maryland added.
Raskin's newly introduced bill calls for the creation of a nonpartisan
"Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity," which would consist of members
appointed by congressional leaders, according to Yahoo News.
The oversight committee, tasked with determining Trump's mental fitness, would
be comprised of four psychiatrists, four physicians, and three other members,
potentially to include a former president, vice president, or former top
government official, according to the Free Beacon.
Raskin claimed to have support from both sides of the political aisle on Capitol
Hill, asserting that some unnamed Republicans have expressed tacit agreement
with the move.
Based on the wording of the 25th Amendment, a sitting US president cannot
legally be declared mentally unfit to serve without the agreement of the
vice-president.
SOURCE :sputniknews