US Democratic lawmaker Raskin seeks commission to oversee removal of presidents [View all]

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WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland told fellow House Democrats on Friday that he will introduce legislation creating a commission to facilitate the removal of any president deemed unable to carry out their duties, according to a House Judiciary Committee spokeswoman.

A "Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of the Office" bill was first introduced by Raskin, now the senior Democrat on the committee, in 2020, when Donald Trump was in his first presidential term.

In recent days, Democrats in Congress have begun talking about pushing for the impeachment of Trump, now in his second term, or trying to trigger the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which provides the bare-bones process for taking away a president's power in a procedure separate from impeachment.

Trump earlier this week caused widespread alarm and anger after he said "a whole civilization will die" in Iran unless its government agreed to allow ships to freely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Shipping there has been interrupted following Trump's decision to launch, along with Israel, a military attack on Iran that began on February 28. The Raskin legislation is unlikely to advance in the Republican-controlled House, where Speaker Mike Johnson is a strong defender of Trump.

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