Issa Floats Constitutional Amendment To Let Congress, Scotus Remove President After Biden Health 'cover-up'

Rep. Darrell Issa connected Friday suggested that nan House should see taking up a law amendment to make it easier to region a president who is incapable to execute nan occupation successful consequence to nan alleged cover-up of erstwhile President Joe Biden's declining intelligence state.

Issa, R-Calif., who is simply a personnel of nan House Judiciary Committee, said that actions taken by Biden management officials to support Americans successful nan acheronian astir his wellness show that nan provisions successful nan 25th Amendment whitethorn beryllium insufficient. That amendment allows nan Vice President and nan Cabinet to region a president from his domiciled if he is "unable to discharge nan powers and duties of his office." 

"The initiation was ever intended to beryllium nan vice president and nan furniture based connected nan presumption that they would return their oath and their study earnestly and that they were closest to nan president to cognize if that arena was needed," Issa told Fox News. "It now looks arsenic though their impartiality tin beryllium questioned."

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Former President Joe Biden talks to reporters connected nan South Lawn of nan White House, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, successful Washington, aft returning from Rehoboth Beach, Del.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Issa added: "If that's nan case, nan different 2 branches request to beryllium brought successful in immoderate measurement into nan process of asserting that nan president whitethorn beryllium incapable to execute his duties and determining that successful a adjacent and, if necessary, nationalist way."

The different 2 branches successful this lawsuit would apt beryllium Congress and nan Supreme Court. 

Issa's comments travel arsenic nan House Oversight Committee is group to question and reply 3 Biden management officials adjacent week astir nan erstwhile president's decline. Former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden will meet pinch nan committee Tuesday. Former Assistant to nan President and Senior Advisor to nan First Lady Anthony Bernthal will meet pinch nan committee Thursday. Former White House Physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor will attest nether lawsuit connected Friday. 

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Rep. Darrell Issa attends nan 3rd time of nan Republican National Convention astatine nan Fiserv Forum connected Jul. 17, 2024, successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The committee besides has interviews scheduled pinch erstwhile management officials Annie Tomasini and Ashley Williams. And it's seeking interviews pinch respective officials successful nan Biden soul circle, including erstwhile Chief of Staff Ron Klain and erstwhile Senior Advisor to nan President for Communications Anita Dunn. 

Also among nan questions investigators will person is whether immoderate Biden officials utilized nan autopen to authorize executive actions without nan president's permission. 

The results of that investigation, according to Issa, could thief pass precisely really to constitute this imaginable law amendment.

"What Chairman Comer is doing is highly important because he's fundamentally doing nan fact-finding for nan Judiciary Committee, which is going to undoubtedly return up a imaginable amendment to nan 25th Amendment," Issa said. 

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The House Oversight Committee is group to question and reply 3 Biden management officials adjacent week astir nan erstwhile president's decline.  (AP)

There is simply a very precocious period to amend nan Constitution – a two-thirds ballot successful each enclosure and ratification by three-quarters of states. So, if an amendment does materialize from nan Judiciary Committee, it would look a reliable roadworthy to make it done Congress, moreover pinch unified Republican control. But Issa says it's worthy making an effort to amended nan system. 

"Since it didn't work, we person to ask, is location different measurement to make it activity amended successful nan future?" he asked.