{"id":35540,"date":"2019-02-19T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35540"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:46:54","slug":"nothing-illegal-about-25th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35540","title":{"rendered":"Nothing ‘illegal’ about 25th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has gotten the nation’s attention.<\/p>\n

“60 Minutes” interviewed McCabe; the program aired Sunday night. McCabe revealed that immediately after Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, a senior Justice Department official — Rod Rosenstein — tossed out the notion of invoking the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This is the one that allows for the removal of a president if a majority of the Cabinet deems him unable to perform the duties of his office.<\/p>\n

What was Donald Trump’s response to McCabe’s allegation? He called it “illegal”; he said McCabe was “treasonous’; he called McCabe a “disgrace” to the FBI and to the country.<\/p>\n

Sheesh, already!<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s back up for just a moment.<\/p>\n

Trump fired Comey over “the Russia thing”; Trump said so himself in a 2017 interview on NBC. The “Russia thing” is the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russians who interfered in our 2016 election.<\/p>\n

He later said Comey’s firing was greeted with praise from within the FBI ranks. McCabe said Sunday that is false. He said Comey was highly respected<\/em> by his staff, by field agents and everyone who knew him at the FBI.<\/p>\n

As for the “illegality” of what McCabe said was discussed, there is nothing illegal<\/em> about invoking an amendment to the nation’s governing document. A majority of Congress sent the amendment to the states; it was ratified in February 1967. It’s all legal!<\/em><\/p>\n

There is some dispute over whether deputy AG Rosenstein actually proposed such a move.<\/p>\n

However, the president is popping off with utter ignorance once again about the legality of an actual constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n\n

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Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has gotten the nation’s attention. “60 Minutes” interviewed McCabe; the program aired Sunday night. McCabe revealed that immediately after Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, a senior Justice Department official — Rod Rosenstein — tossed out the notion of invoking the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This … Continue reading Nothing ‘illegal’ about 25th Amendment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7928,13],"tags":[7553,1424,1693,6242,7093],"class_list":["post-35540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-national-news","tag-andrew-mccabe","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-james-comey","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35543,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions\/35543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}