This is important. It won't pass as long as Trump is president or the Republicans control the Senate, but, given the nation's experiences with the current deranged chief executive, it's a reform that should be given strong consideration.
A brief explainer: As a default, Section 4 vests power in the Vice President and the Cabinet to make a determination of a president's inability to carry out his or her duties. But ...
... it gives Congress the option of creating another body to make that determination. That could be some group of legislators, or a group of experts—whatever Congress provides by law.
That wouldn't, however, affect the remainder of Section 4, which ultimately places the determination in the hands of supermajorities of both houses of Congress.
I'm referring to Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
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Under the DSM-5, the diagnosis of a personality disorder requires a finding that a person suffers "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."
The only prominent mental-health professional I know of who has ever disputed that @realDonaldTrump suffers from a Cluster B personality disorder such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder is Allen Frances, who argued that ...
In the 1980s, New York real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley renovated her palatial weekend home in Connecticut. But she stiffed the contractors. They sued her, and they sent some documents to the New York Post that showed she was billing some of the work to her businesses.
That triggered a federal criminal tax fraud investigation. In the end, some United States Attorney named, um ... I think, Giuliani—is that how you spell it?—prosecuted her.
A jury convicted her of one count of conspiracy to defraud the US, three counts of tax evasion, three counts of filing false personal tax returns, sixteen counts of assisting in the filing of false corporate and partnership tax returns, and ten counts of mail fraud.
Prediction: Sooner or later, probably sooner, the @realDonaldTrump tax returns that the @nytimes obtained will be obtained by other journalists, and then put on the internet in full.
And all that expert crowdsourcing will not only produce more insight about Trump's finances, but also will cause even more evidence to come out.
No one will touch him financially, and he'll have no one to bail him out. Not even a line of credit to tide things over.