You're right, but everyone should have seen something like this coming. We've been headed in this direction for years, and it may still get worse before it gets better. The incredulity of complacent people has allowed things to progress as far as they have.
@@nukwtunh8337 Ironic, isn't it... the country most opposed to the idea of monarchies and empires is the most die-hard supporter of the Imperial system of measurement.
"[President Regan's assassination attempt happened] just down the street from where I live"; luckily he had a good alibi since he was in Wisconsin and 12.
He said "Where I LIVE" - Present Tense - Not "Where I lived" - Past tense, at the time. Do YOU live in the same place that you lived in on March 30, 1981? I do not. I have moved five times since then. How about he GREW UP in Wisconsin and moved to the neighborhood of 1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W, Washington DC where he lives TODAY?
Woodrow Wilson became disabled after a massive stroke and his wife basically ended up running the government for him. She's been called The Secret President.
Eleanor Roosevelt also dealt with a lot of presidential responsibilities as her husband's health worsened. I think he suffered from debilitating depression?
@@midnightsnack1306 I mean yes, but Trump will probably go down as being one of the most famous, or rather infamous Presidents of all time. His unfortunate legacy, like it or not will dominate the conversation around the office of President for a long long time in the future.
That happened for Herbert Hoover, after he lost his reelection they actually passed a constitutional amendment shortening the lame duck period just so he could be out of office a couple months sooner.
@Tim Evans Nah, nothing against Devin but I make it a personal rule not to drink the blood of lawyers for any reason. "You are what you eat" and all that.
Well, as life goes right now....we are not in a movie....we are in a reality show that has run for four years too long!!! If I want a long movie, I might as well as go watch Wyatt Earp starring Kevin Costner. >:)
I'm forty-five years old and this year was the first time in my life I even cared about watching Congress verifying and counting electoral votes. Could Trump stop making even the most mundane government functions insanely terrifying FOR FIVE MINUTES!!!
I’m 42, have a History degree, and was literally trained to watch current news while analyzing it all- especially seeing as I was midway through on 9/11 and the aftermath regularly led to “okay, we’re forgetting the syllabus for a bit and going into the history related to the news...” and I have never more than theoretically cared about what was formalities. I basically practiced watching horrible events and am still exhausted by reality
I’m not even 18 yet. This is literally all I know for how life works. How was life for you when you were 17? I want to know if there is even hope for my life.
@@AshofApocalypse this is abnormal. Life can be tough and unfair but if you keep a positive attitude, avoid self destructive habits, treat your family and friends with love, and always make time for doing things that interest you then you will most likely have more ups then downs. News has a tendency to bring world problems into our home but realize that you can always turn it off when you want. Keep your focus on things you can directly influence and practice civic responsibility by voting at all levels. Make peace with the fact that sometimes the majority will disagree with you. Best wishes. Most people are good.
@@AshofApocalypse I was 21 when the world went crazy after the Towers fell and while things weren’t normal for a few years for most of the ensuing time I didn’t have to worry. As a historian with a Psych minor I can say society is able to find a way through a lot
@@malignm1857 I remember watching a US Presidential Historian react to a movie about Dick Cheney and basically said the same thing. That's so bizarre and fascinating to hear. That he was a quieter, stoic man, but his mind was always working a mile a minute compared to the more laid back personality of Bush.
The sheer logistical hassles of evoking the 25th have always seemed very daunting to me. Like, imagine if Pence and the cabinet marches in to the Oval Office and tells Trump he's evoking the 25th. Who would physically get Trump out of there? Could he just move into a different office in the White House until all the legal challenges were done?
Nice to see you here JJ. Hello friend. :) I think technically if Pence assumes the powers immediately then he could order the Secret Service to evacuate the president.
That’s easy as Vlasov explained. The harder question is what happens if before Pence transmits the letter if Trump hears of the plan, fires all the secretaries, and appoints his kids as acting ones?
@@Keithustus in that case, Congress would need to make the call. The President cannot fire appointed congressmen and women. That's supposed to be the check/balance in place.
"Four years is a long, long time." Indeed. By my calculations, it's been almost three and a half centuries since Donald Trump took office four years ago.
And well they should. While the casualties and even property damage were small (relative to things like 9/11 or any of the growing number of annual hurricanes and the like), as a symbolic gesture Trump's attack on Congress was the closest the US has come to being a failed experiment since the civil war. It didn't look like much (especially for those trying to find the "good side" of an attempted rebellion) but it _means_ a whole hell of a lot and when all is said and done, the loss of trust in the foundations and institutions of the constitution will outlast the property damage and even the tragic loss of those five lives. It will stain American history for as long as the country exists.
That would be bizarre, quite frankly. Nixon committed far worse crimes than Watergate. He dropped more bombs on Cambodia, a country that the US wasn't even at war with, than the US dropped on Japan during WWII.
@@8523wsxc And whatever's left of Cambodian history books should rightly slam him for that. But from an American perspective, unilaterally attacking other nations is like.. Tuesday. Attacking their own nation is quite a different beast.
In parliamentary systems, we have the idea of ‘confidence’. A motion might be put that ‘the prime minister no longer has the confidence of the house’. This would seem to cover the middle ground between actual incapacity, and full competence. The US constitution doesn’t seem to cover this middle ground without stretching the use of the word ‘unable’.
We don't cover it because it doesn't exist it doesn't matter how good or bad Trump was a Republican ergo all Democrats in Congress would immediately lose confidence and same is true if he was Democratic the Republicans of Congress would lose congress if we had that system we would never have a president for more than a few days
To be fair, the difference there is that the Prime Minister is Prime Minister because he commands the confidence of Parliament - it's a majority of Parliament that put them there, so they're able to withdraw that confidence. By contrast, the President is put in place by the people, so their removal by any branch other than the people (via elections) is significantly more extreme.
@@StevenR0se As far as I know the people don't have the ability to remove the President early, which could really be a big problem. You've got someone with a ton of power, including the ability to pardon people (which could be exploited to have people commit crimes on the President's behalf) but no way to stop them from causing more damage with their power until their 4 year term is up.
Me when I first started watching this channel : "Great let's learn something about the American judicial system." Me when I watch a video now: "Ok, i am pretty sure i need some Whiskey with this information. "
Wayne plead guilty to illegal possession of a firearm on a private flight to Florida. Kodak Black admitted to lying on multiple background checks in order to obtain guns, and at least one of them was found with his prints on it at a crime scene where it was used to shoot at a "rival rap artist." But at the end of the day, it's not about what they did, it's just shocking that trump would pardon a couple of black men for anything. He obviously only said he'd do it because someone told him it would make him look better to "the youth," i.e. younger black voters. I don't believe for an instant that he would seriously consider pardoning either of these men of his own volition.
@@ObeyCamp why? Both of them have come out publically and supported him. It also plays well with young voters if he does go round again in '24. Like Candace Owens he can use them to say "look how I'm not racist". Also most importantly both are VERY well off. People STILL don't realise Trump is only racist when he's not blinded by green. If he can use you to make money he doesn't give a sh't about your skin.
Remember when he pardoned the war criminals and some non-violent drug offenders and people were patting him on the back for pardoning drug offenders? The ones pardoned were all connected to the woman that Kim Kardashian had lobbied for, previously. In other words, they didn't get pardoned because of their crime or their sentence, they got pardons because of their connections to famous people.
@@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810I agree, I've frequently said, Trump's more of an elitest than a racist. To be clear he is definitely guilty of racism & enjoying the support of racists. But I would argue that... He is an idiot 1st A Narcissist 2nd An Elitest 3rd And a Racist 4th
I refer you to 8 years of Obama, which was very much like that for some Democrats. Let us not pretend we have seen something unique here, we definitely have not. Turns out a base is just that, the minimum supporting structure.
@@BaresarkSlayne Never once did anyone suggest that Obama was above the law; Democrats simply pointed out how full of shit the right-wing media's "He'S-VioLaTinG-tHe-cOnSTiTutIOn!!" claims were. No where *_near_* the same thing.
Never watch the West Wing so I can't criticize them. In 2016, Lindybiege said that it is part of problem with American political understanding. Everything was so glowy, so nice, so holy. On the other hand, the brits had Yes,Minister and The Thick of It (two comedic masterpieces that tell how the systems worked), which tell you what going on and how politicians actually get thing done or thwarted. But disappointedly, the lead writer for the Thick of It said that he cannot write political stuff anymore as the real world is indistinguisable with anything he could write. Plagiarizing real-life.
@@Purpleturtlehurtler that is my word. Anything he write now would felt that he ripping off the newspaper. Whereas before, he simply show the craziness behind the scene. Now the craziness is out there for everyone to see and nothing written would be a surprise.
Legal Eagle starting 2020: "Hey I started a new video platform apart from RUclips." Legal Eagle starting 2021: "Hey, I'm going to post a bunch of videos to RUclips, because this is more important than monetization."
@@GillBearToe Usually depends on copyright claims. These videos are referring to real life issues, not 'How Many Laws Did This Movie or Show Break?' The amount of copyrighted material is not likely to be an issue in this format.
@@GillBearToe For the most part, he is. But the amount of research and professionalism he puts into his videos is likely very poorly rewarded by RUclips, especially when compared to "creators" like PewDiePie and Jake Paul.
@@eaglescout1984 RUclipsrs like PewDiePie and Jake Paul don't even get most of their money from RUclips. They do things like sponsor deals and merchandising that actually gives them more returns than the youtube monetization system ever could.
@@eaglescout1984 I love the big Eagle... but research and professionalism aren’t factors in the monetization process. As mentioned above - sponsors and merch are a big part, but so is ad placement in videos. I just watched the most recent full length videos, and there’s an ad every 6 minutes or so. It’s not bad - LE is using his entire education toward making these videos, and he deserves every single sponsor and ad dollar he makes off these. But he’s getting paid. He’s not doing this for free. Nor should he. But I feel like I’d be disappointing the LE himself if I didn’t bring up that deservedness doesn’t equate to business monetization. Actually - I’d love to see a video breaking down the back end of RUclips money. But I also know why that probably won’t ever happen.
You're assuming this is gonna blow over. Look into the late Roman republic, there are a few similarities to the current climate. The mere existence of Trump's political career is going to have a whole bunch more people try to grab power, and probably much more intelligently.
I always thought that "Acting President" should have been Reagan's title. He did a convincing act of playing the Presidential role... Whereas Trump should be described as "Acting Up" as that's what he does all the time
It must be crazy times when a German - not having any professional interest - watches a 16 minute long lawyer video about one section of an Amendment to the American Constitution.
@@2005RavenR6 There already was an agreement in place that Germany will up their defence spending to two percent of the GDP until 2025 and we are on track with that. The pumpkin-faced moron ignored this in order to employ his usual bully tactics. And idiots like you are falling for that stupid rhetoric. BTW: The nazis are now to be found in the U.S. as you could clearly see on the 6th of January. You may want to have a look in the mirror?
"Well I am your king." "I didn't vote for you." "You don't vote for king...the lady of the lake..." "Look, strange women lying in ponds is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derived from a mandate of the masses, not by some farcical aquatic ceremony. If I became king just because some moisten bint, some watery tart..."
@@kinshiroitoro5788 I'm not sure - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I love in the beginning - a 5 oz bird cannot carry a 1 pound coconut. That whole scene where in the end they finally just leave because the conversation about swallows goes on and on (hilariously so).
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp this is a joke, right? Criticism of mainstream media has existed for as long as mainstream media itself. The term 'yellow journalism' was first coined all the way back in the 1890s ffs
Thank you for not presenting this video in a jaded or biased way. I really appreciate someone just presenting the facts without adding in their own opinion or emotion. Very refreshing.
@@mikepastor.k6233 Yeah I mean the single most important thing that has happened to our country in over 200 years, that relevance. An insurrection as part of a coup instigated by the sitting President of the United States. Seems pretty "relevant" to me. Personally, I get my news from ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, AP News, Reuters, NewsMax, CNN, NBC News, and Spiegel. I look at every single one every single day to see all of the coverage to understand the truth as well as what the Left and Right are spinning about the truth. In this case, it is obvious for anyone who is open to the truth what happened.
@@mikejuice576 is there real proof the president told those protesters to storm the Capital. It was stupid and they are but as far as charging Trump with insurgency. Show me where he actually told them to try to take over the Capital by force..
@@mikepastor.k6233 Just watch the last 5 videos from LegalEagle. I think he covers the sedition pretty thoroughly. I am not here to argue and try to convince you of something. My comment was a thank you to Legal Eagle. Im out.
@@mikejuice576 yer out! Fine, but don't count on anything too much bad, legally happening to Trump, in spite of the non stop rhetoric of your charming legal eagle.
It's kinda the other way around, he lost his twitter because he couldnt use it in conjunction with his power as president. I'd argue the tweets Twitter cited as the cause for removal of trump are pretty weak sauce, but its clear they just wanted rid of him. Not to say they didn't have removed him, just that they could have done it ages ago and with better reason than these fairly tame tweets
I have vivid memories of Reagan's shooting. I also vividly remember Haig declaring that he was in charge, and all the brouhaha that resulted. The first reaction I heard was from my dad, who said, "He can't say that!"
Well he basically is a James Bond villian so no. I actually googled his name and couldn't find a single picture where he doesn't bc of this comment and it gave me some much needed laughter.
??? Legal Eagle aka Devon Stone is an "actual" lawyer. It's one of the main purposes of this channel is to have a lawyer explain US law related questions. stonelawdc.com/about Or you just mean you are curious to see the video you just commented on? That seems a bit premature, it isn't that long a video that can't be watched first.
I was today years old when I found out that Elaine Chao was Mitch McConnell's wife. I was today years old when I realized that Mitch McConnell was married. *shudder*
That's the reason why we create the thing in the first place, to eventually use it when we need to. Section 4 ain't some random OPM statute, it's literally written into the U.S. Constitution.
@@jeremyc4811 I’m amazed by how the founding fathers thought of everything and even made it vague so it could be applied to future events that are somewhat similar, I just want to hug them and say “Thank You, I love you uwu” I’m kidding, ew no, stop.
Sadly? Pence seems to be the speed bump, not the accelerator. And that's the problem with a Section 4 invocation - it's absolutely dependent on there being a Vice President willing to invoke it.
If he does become the president, here's hoping he just keeps his head down until Enogeration Day and does pull all the pardoning people are afraid he'll do.
16:05 I am still cleaning coffee out of my keyboard. This was hilarious. This dude is a legend and this is one of the few channels I would actually pay to keep watching.
I had the thought this morning, seeing more Cabinet members and acting Cabinet members resigning is that they aren't "rats abandoning a sinking ship" as has been thought by a few, but an attempt to avoid being drawn into the 25th Amendment possibility. In other words, if they aren't there, they can't be made to respond to it.
This is it exactly. Just like everything else they do, his cronies act out of self interest. What's good for Americans isn't the first or second consideration when making a decision.
Taking some heat for being a rat is infinitely better than being thrown into a furnace for your potential decision in the 25th amendment. Absolutely selfish, but honestly the backlash otherwise from either side would be immense.
As I was watching everything happen on Wednesday, I kept thinking that Devon had to have been going as insane as I was and that the incoming videos were going to be crazy.
Yes. I'm Australian and everything I know about US law (apart from patents and copyrights, which I worked in for a while) is very basic. Devin always breaks these down very clearly for the layperson and I really enjoy his videos.
Which is why, from a rational standpoint, this is obviously not the sort of thing the 25th was designed for. That minimal requirement to write that you're able to execute the duties of office indicates that this is specifically to deal with an incapacitated, rather than an incompetent, executive.
25th ammendment clearly states incapable to execute. Unwilling and incapable are 2 diferent things beyond simple semantics. One is attributed and meant for things like senile dementia, where the president MIGHT believe he is "fine" but really isnt. Unwilling or incompetence does not really apply. Unless the supreme court says otherwise. But for the supreme court to have a choice in the matter. Someone has to enact the 25th ammendment. The problem is time. Is pretty doubtful to ger a resolution to this before January 20.
@@Rockboygg It seems pretty clear to me that it would be a nonjusticiable political question whether the VP, cabinet and Congress need a reason at all, never mind whether the reason must be that POTUS is "unable" as opposed to "unwilling".
It also makes it easier to think on the increased importance of the ones that are still in their functions (if the temporary replacements are not allowed to vote the Vice_President´s proposal).
@@lhfirex "This is the 25th amendment, of all the amendments, this is the one that happened 25th. It came after the 24th, and if the 26th had happened before it, it would have been called the 25th and this the 26th. The 27th is way off... Hey, Alan, do you think we've hit the word count yet?"
The first two sections are short single sentences that just explain what it is. 3 and 4 are much longer and get into specifics and details and different possibilities and legalities. SECTION 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. SECTION 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
“unwilling” could be dangerously politicized. One could argue the incumbent is “unwilling” to pass policy that helps a particular political party, and makes the term itself very vague.
@@EgoPersons Aww. You're probably right. Still, there needs to be a specific clause that punishes a President for fomenting violence that isn't JUST based on congress having the integrity to do so.
Sounds like the 25th amendment needs to be immediately amended to include the phrase “unable or unwilling to discharge the powers of their office“ to prevent any future incidents such as this.
Sadly that is also a problematic solution, the president may look unwilling or unable to perform task because he sees the bigger picture ( Not this president, he's terrible and was definition of incompetent and traitours.) Think what republican would have said about Obama for things like Iran and pressured to remove him on those grounds.
@@matthewkane1188 yeah but reasonable person standard would apply and then the senate would get to debate about it as opposed to just letting them run amok
@@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei we just saw an angry mob attack the capital and republican supporters blamed it on Antifa that Window of Sanity got lost in the house fire started by the dumpster fire of the current. president
Problem there, as w/ changing many things in Costitution that "should" be changed, is an amendment is almost impossible, given size & division of US now. Perhaps 1st change they should try to make is how the Const gets amended?
Amendment 14, Sec. 3: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States...shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
I wonder if they will apply that to the capital "selfie" cops? Hell, I doubt this will get applied at all, just a lot of bluster to ride out the next 12 days and then try to move on like insurrection didn't happen. Pisses me off so much I'm using vulgarities in Legal Eagle's comment section, and I never do that.
LoL, i love this tired line. 40 people rioting, getting arrested, some people were even killed, charges pressed, support by literally no one. That isn't an insurrection, you dolt.
@@AVeryRandomPerson I bring up the capitol police because they work for the the United States government, which makes them holders of a civil office under the United States. But I agree, apply it to all who have earned it!
The first two sections deal with succession and sections 3 and 4 deal with a president being unable to perform his duties. They are the relevant sections for this discussion.
Section 1 says that if the Presidency is vacated, the VP becomes President. Believe it or not that wasn’t stated in the original Constitution. Section 2 states how a vacancy in the VP slot can be filled. Amazingly enough again, they forgot to add that the first time. Until the 60s, a VP vacancy just left the slot open until the next election. Sections 3 and 4 are the ones that are relevant to taking away a President’s power.
It's like learning about the blood clot cascade in physiology. The blood clot factors are numbered after the order in which they were discovered and not the order in which they act in the cascade. Which as you can imagine makes learning it a little tricky.
Some people are commenting that these past 4 years have been more crazy than even the writers on The West Wing could come up with. I'd say it's perfectly in line with the plot of the short-lived TV show Brain Dead.
This is why "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. I always understood that academically, but it's only in the last year that I understand it emotionally.
Absolutely. I think people who call for the 25th amendment are a little naive. There's no way the GOP is gonna take the brunt of political backlash from Trump's supporters on themselves by invoking 25th amendment, even if it's proven that he has really gone crazy. The Dem just has to man up and impeach him.
As someone who dealt with dementia in the family, he's showing early signs but not "troubling signs" if he was not president. It may not be dementia but CNS exhaustion from a combination of Trump's stimulant use and covid diagnosis. The main reason this isn't used is because A) Historically Reagan served in much worse condition, B) it would not be a guarantee Trump is kept out of office, and C) as someone else pointed out, a dementia claim could provide Trump an insanity plea on his crimes to escape ALL prosecution. Not just for Federal Crimes, which he has the power to pardon others for.
Great vid, you have calmed down now and this longer format is much better that trying to make some onrly acted short. Thanks for interesting information
If there's one lesson to learn from the last 4 years, it's that we need to rethink the unchecked power that the President has. Consequences-free Presidents can't happen again.
Yeah, but this is a path the country has been moving towards for the last century as the executive branch grows and grows and power is pulled from the people to the federal government. This is not a recent change.
The issue is that most of the powers he has have a legitimate purpose to be used in extreme cases. He's just the only one who disgraced the office by blatantly taking advantage mostly for personal gain.
The fire extinguisher on the wall is meant to put out fires, but there's nothing in that extinguisher to stop someone from blasting people with it. But we can all agree that in most circumstances, having a fire extinguisher is better than not.
Did they repeal the first two or something? Edit: apparently it's the lines of succession for the president (sec1) and vicep (sec2) and don't need to be invoked. So I guess what Mr Stone meant was that sec3 is the first section that can be invoked
Someday in the future there is literally going to be A. a college/ high school course that is: the history of 2020 B. a law school course called the precedents of the unprecedented: 2020
I have been binge watching a lot of your videos, and thought I should probably thank you. As a European from a not English speaking country it is very hard to find any information regarding the situation in the USA that is not (excuse my lack of appropriate words) written in duckling shakespearian English... Or laws as it is known otherwise. So yeah, thank you for explaining everything simple enough for us non-lawyers to understand, but still with enough factually correct information to actually gain knowledge. You are appreciated all over the world (I'd say)
But also as a European I'm shocked that the US could come this close to becoming a dictatorship and that many still support Trump even though he made a mockery of the US. While no man should be sacred the institutions and it's symbols should be.
Where the Peruvian constitution mentions “moral incapacity.” Though theirs is unfortunately a country where every living president save one (an interim) is under some sort of criminal cloud. And I am a Colombian, and we love Peruvians, but...
"The 25th Amendment has several sections, the first is section 3." I know he means that the first /relevant/ section is section 3, but I still can't help but make a "lawyers can't count" joke
[Acktually] It is rather clever: -> Metadata [invisible ink on the backside] (Section 1): This is the last section. [stuff about 1] (Section 2): This is not the first section. [other stuff 2] (Section 3): ...~whatever~. [This should be used before POTUS is unconcious...]
We must now get rid of Biden and make Harris president for her entire life time. We’ve suffered enough from those Republicans and it’s time to get rid of their propaganda and incumbents. Harris for life!
@@wyattb3138 as glad as I am that biden picked harris, no. I prefer biden over harris. (so no) “we” don’t need to get rid of biden. he will be your president... and with any luck, she’ll run again. maybe this time, she’ll address her problematic stint as a prosecutor a little better.
I think Trump is an android powered by a neural network, fed data by 4Chan and Facebook to generate sentences, make tweets, and make presidential decisions. Though, I’m pretty sure Microsoft Tay would have been a less controversial president than Trump.
@@seasesh4073 The Bush administration was effectively the Cheney administration. Bush had no interest in policy or politics (like most Americans in the early 2000s), which is partially why Bush always polled well for likability. Bush might have had his signature on the paperwork, but Cheney was the one directing national policy; Cheney was very effective at it too, achieving almost all of his goals before leaving office.
I would be more willing to believe that Game of Thrones was actually a documentary than believe ANYONE took ANYTHING away from Dick Cheney (well except for attorney Harry Whittington removing a shotgun from Mr. Cheney's cold living hands).
@@jacobhayes4085 depends. Are they maladaptive or adaptive narcissists? A maladaptive narcissist - like many believe Trump is - has characteristics unfit for many jobs let alone the highest office of the land. Adaptive narcissists use their traits in a way that happens to benefit others, relatively speaking. Keep in mind that you can have many narcissistic traits and not be a narcissist, and that just because many of a group seem to have those traits doesn't mean that we can excuse clear cut cases where someone has without question displayed exploitative, entitled and exhibitionist behaviors to abuse others.
@@MiniiCitrus Real talk - is there legal precedent for removing someone from a government office on the grounds of behavior patterns conforming to maladaptive narcissism? If so, "being a giant asshole" might actually be grounds for impeachment.
Dick Cheney was put in charge twice... oh dear god. Sadly, I would prefer a Cheney presidency over Trump at this point. At least we could call him President Darth Vader because of his artificial heart.
Section 1 and 2 are outlined in the constitution already but they are very vague and prone to misinterpretation... the 25th amendment offers a mechanism for removal and details the process
@@walttholomew The joke made me smile. :) Also, funnily enough, since they don't actually remove the canceled text or update the numbering of lists when the Constitution is amended, if the 25th Amendment has itself been amended, it actually could be a list where the first item is No. 3, or even 3.03.
Doesn't matter if the ones holding the checks are a corrupt party aiding and abetting a treasonous president. They can clearly invoke the 25th, but they haven't. They can impeach him, but that requires a 2/3 vote and a trial, which the Republicans also refuse. And have refused for everything from the Russian investigation to the first impeachment and will refuse in the second. And if anything goes to the Supreme Court, we already know what sort of people are in the majority right now.
If this last year showed up in the West Wing, everyone would've stopped watching and started complaining online that it wasn't realistic at all.
You're right, but everyone should have seen something like this coming. We've been headed in this direction for years, and it may still get worse before it gets better. The incredulity of complacent people has allowed things to progress as far as they have.
Old saying: Truth is stranger than fiction.
Nah... The West Wing got a bit out there in it's later seasons, but this would be way too far.
If this year had shown up in Veep it would have been called off the rails.
Fiction has to make sense. Reality just has to happen.
It's official, LegalEagle isn't sleeping
@@egesanl1, you would think that. Then you graduate and go into criminal law, and miss the amount of sleep you had back in law school.
If anything I imagine his editors are working overtime, if there's not a bunch of them.
@@egesanl1 not relevant, but it is caffeine.. is cafeen some slang?
@@blackbomber72 the caffeine is getting to him.
@@egesanl1 If you don't know how something is spelled/worded in a language that is not your native one, maybe check before you post? Just saying.
"The 25th amendment has several sections. The first is Section Three. "
Makes sense.
*damn Americans and their imperial system*
The sections are three, four, eighteen and fifty-six. *What?*
@@nukwtunh8337 Ironic, isn't it... the country most opposed to the idea of monarchies and empires is the most die-hard supporter of the Imperial system of measurement.
Aw yes section three of the 25 amendment. The oldest section in the book.
@@davidmontgomery1442 i mean he was kinda talking about something irrelevant to the joke, you attacked the core itself
"[President Regan's assassination attempt happened] just down the street from where I live"; luckily he had a good alibi since he was in Wisconsin and 12.
VERY good. 10/10 joke,
Unexpected mulaney
Too good of an alibi, suspicious.
@@FortoFight Yeah, I don't buy it.
He said "Where I LIVE" - Present Tense - Not "Where I lived" - Past tense, at the time. Do YOU live in the same place that you lived in on March 30, 1981? I do not. I have moved five times since then. How about he GREW UP in Wisconsin and moved to the neighborhood of 1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W, Washington DC where he lives TODAY?
Woodrow Wilson became disabled after a massive stroke and his wife basically ended up running the government for him. She's been called The Secret President.
woodrow wilson ruined quite a lot of things, she was probably a better president by the law of averages alone
The First Female President of the United States
@@okkam7078 i think he had a showing of birth of a nation at the white house. Yeah he's definitely garbage
Eleanor Roosevelt also dealt with a lot of presidential responsibilities as her husband's health worsened. I think he suffered from debilitating depression?
@@annalisasteinnes FDR had polio, not sure about depression but it's certainly possible
The final season of “The 45th” really went all out for it’s last few episodes.
They full on said go big or go home
@@angie8110 actually i think they did both they went home in a big ball of fire
Too bad it wasn’t very realistic...
No way a president would incite a seditious riot!!!
Yup. It's like the writers room asked "how many sharks can we jump in the final season" and the response was "at least one more"
It jumped the shark for a ratings boost. Meh...1 star.
I got an Ad for Nebula
Starring Legal Eagle
On a Legal Eagle video
Why does that amuse me so much?
It's the directors cut of the video lol
Lol
So far I've gotten about 4 of them, only ever on legal eagle videos
That’s like two syllables away from being a haiku
Same just happened to me. lol
“4 years for a president to serve their term is a long time. It’s a long, LONG time.” Yea I can confidently say I don’t think it’s ever felt longer.
You've apparently never heard of the 4 years under James Buchanan
@@brandonlarimore5223 I have I just wasn’t alive back in 1860 so I can’t comment on how it felt lol
@@noahdowd You young people these days, can't even remember the 15th President...
I call for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum’s leadership,
So this is how freedom dies...with thunderous applause.
Make the Galaxy Great Again!
SCE2AUX This is how liberty dies ☝🏻 had to nitpick, sorry 😅
I'd rather have Palpatine at this point than our current leadership.
@@chaoticcranium At least palatine cared enough to keep his empire together whilst he was alive.
Man history classes 200 years in the future are gonna be wild
It should be an interesting foot note but not as interesting as the world wars.
We will no longer exist in 200 years prob
But I admire your optimism :)
@@midnightsnack1306 I mean yes, but Trump will probably go down as being one of the most famous, or rather infamous Presidents of all time. His unfortunate legacy, like it or not will dominate the conversation around the office of President for a long long time in the future.
@@fjodorklein3021 Or that yeah lmao
1:50 "But this is real life." Thank you for the confirmation. I've been getting increasingly unsure.
Seems like a parody article from the onion
*pinches self* damn still real
Just imagine being so bad at your job that you give your two weeks notice and they go, “is there any way we can make this happen sooner?”
That happened for Herbert Hoover, after he lost his reelection they actually passed a constitutional amendment shortening the lame duck period just so he could be out of office a couple months sooner.
If you give notice in many companies, they do not have to wait the customary period and simply release you at will. This ain't such a deal.
I can only imagine how much Devin pines for the days he was just doing legal analysis on My Cousin Vinny and Top Ten Lawyer Memes.
@Tim Evans * bonk *
@Tim Evans Uh, maybe try a glass of water to quench that thirst buddy.
@Tim Evans Nah, nothing against Devin but I make it a personal rule not to drink the blood of lawyers for any reason. "You are what you eat" and all that.
I don’t know his popularity probably went up quickly
By “My Cousin Vinny” you mean Giuliani? ;)
When real life is more absurd than movies
We need President Not Sure
**Idiocracy intensifies**
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Eye didn't ask for this timeline... Eye didn't choose this timeline... but here we are...
Well, as life goes right now....we are not in a movie....we are in a reality show that has run for four years too long!!! If I want a long movie, I might as well as go watch Wyatt Earp starring Kevin Costner. >:)
I'm forty-five years old and this year was the first time in my life I even cared about watching Congress verifying and counting electoral votes. Could Trump stop making even the most mundane government functions insanely terrifying FOR FIVE MINUTES!!!
I’m 42, have a History degree, and was literally trained to watch current news while analyzing it all- especially seeing as I was midway through on 9/11 and the aftermath regularly led to “okay, we’re forgetting the syllabus for a bit and going into the history related to the news...” and I have never more than theoretically cared about what was formalities. I basically practiced watching horrible events and am still exhausted by reality
I’m not even 18 yet. This is literally all I know for how life works. How was life for you when you were 17? I want to know if there is even hope for my life.
@@AshofApocalypse this is abnormal. Life can be tough and unfair but if you keep a positive attitude, avoid self destructive habits, treat your family and friends with love, and always make time for doing things that interest you then you will most likely have more ups then downs. News has a tendency to bring world problems into our home but realize that you can always turn it off when you want. Keep your focus on things you can directly influence and practice civic responsibility by voting at all levels. Make peace with the fact that sometimes the majority will disagree with you.
Best wishes. Most people are good.
i dont think you need to worry anymore. He finally promised a peaceful transition, didnt he?
@@AshofApocalypse I was 21 when the world went crazy after the Towers fell and while things weren’t normal for a few years for most of the ensuing time I didn’t have to worry. As a historian with a Psych minor I can say society is able to find a way through a lot
"Believe it or not, took the power away from vice president Dick Cheney"
HAAAAAAAA
What did that mean?
@@archuletawsn Cheney was often portrayed as a power-hungry megalomaniac back in the early 2000s during the W Bush Presidency.
@@archuletawsn Dick Cheney was actually the President behind the scenes, while Bush was the mascot.
@@malignm1857 I remember watching a US Presidential Historian react to a movie about Dick Cheney and basically said the same thing. That's so bizarre and fascinating to hear. That he was a quieter, stoic man, but his mind was always working a mile a minute compared to the more laid back personality of Bush.
@@drartemisa21 yeah. Cheney knew bush wasn’t ready. Cheney was in politics since the early 70s.
The sheer logistical hassles of evoking the 25th have always seemed very daunting to me. Like, imagine if Pence and the cabinet marches in to the Oval Office and tells Trump he's evoking the 25th. Who would physically get Trump out of there? Could he just move into a different office in the White House until all the legal challenges were done?
Nice to see you here JJ. Hello friend. :) I think technically if Pence assumes the powers immediately then he could order the Secret Service to evacuate the president.
That’s easy as Vlasov explained. The harder question is what happens if before Pence transmits the letter if Trump hears of the plan, fires all the secretaries, and appoints his kids as acting ones?
Yoooo it’s J.J. McCullough! And yes you’re right, I would feel even worse for the white house staff lol.
@@Keithustus in that case, Congress would need to make the call. The President cannot fire appointed congressmen and women. That's supposed to be the check/balance in place.
i don't think the physical occupancy of the white house is an important issue.
"Four years is a long, long time." Indeed. By my calculations, it's been almost three and a half centuries since Donald Trump took office four years ago.
Yup. I'm 36 and I'm pretty sure Trump was voted in when I was 25.
I was 25 when 2020 started. I'm 43 now.
YOU ARE RIGHT IT FEEL LIKE IT, CAN'T WAIT FOR JANUARY 20TH 2021
Three of those centuries were just 2020 though
Feels like its been a time, times, and half a time.
In 50 years people are going to take this scandal over Nixon's for history lessons
"these 5-volume collection of scandals"
And well they should. While the casualties and even property damage were small (relative to things like 9/11 or any of the growing number of annual hurricanes and the like), as a symbolic gesture Trump's attack on Congress was the closest the US has come to being a failed experiment since the civil war. It didn't look like much (especially for those trying to find the "good side" of an attempted rebellion) but it _means_ a whole hell of a lot and when all is said and done, the loss of trust in the foundations and institutions of the constitution will outlast the property damage and even the tragic loss of those five lives. It will stain American history for as long as the country exists.
I hope so, then people will stop incessantly adding 'gate' to the end of scandals
That would be bizarre, quite frankly. Nixon committed far worse crimes than Watergate. He dropped more bombs on Cambodia, a country that the US wasn't even at war with, than the US dropped on Japan during WWII.
@@8523wsxc And whatever's left of Cambodian history books should rightly slam him for that.
But from an American perspective, unilaterally attacking other nations is like.. Tuesday. Attacking their own nation is quite a different beast.
In parliamentary systems, we have the idea of ‘confidence’. A motion might be put that ‘the prime minister no longer has the confidence of the house’. This would seem to cover the middle ground between actual incapacity, and full competence. The US constitution doesn’t seem to cover this middle ground without stretching the use of the word ‘unable’.
We don't cover it because it doesn't exist it doesn't matter how good or bad Trump was a Republican ergo all Democrats in Congress would immediately lose confidence and same is true if he was Democratic the Republicans of Congress would lose congress if we had that system we would never have a president for more than a few days
To be fair, the difference there is that the Prime Minister is Prime Minister because he commands the confidence of Parliament - it's a majority of Parliament that put them there, so they're able to withdraw that confidence. By contrast, the President is put in place by the people, so their removal by any branch other than the people (via elections) is significantly more extreme.
@@StevenR0se As far as I know the people don't have the ability to remove the President early, which could really be a big problem. You've got someone with a ton of power, including the ability to pardon people (which could be exploited to have people commit crimes on the President's behalf) but no way to stop them from causing more damage with their power until their 4 year term is up.
There has never been middle ground in America anywhere at any time. I know; I live here in this hellhole.
Me when I first started watching this channel : "Great let's learn something about the American judicial system."
Me when I watch a video now: "Ok, i am pretty sure i need some Whiskey with this information. "
@Wemple After effects of 2020
@Wemple I think what he MEANT to say was "banana daquiri" -- emphasis on "banana".
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whisky is barely enough."-Mark Twain
Legal Eagle looks like a superhero in his secret identity as a lawyer.
So he's Daredevil?! Lol.
hopefully not She-Hulk . . .
@@khrashingphantom9632 more Harvey Birdman.
What are his superpowers?
@@MicheleGardini Agreed. lol.
I just about fell out my seat when he said Trump is giving Lil Wayne a pardon.
Wayne plead guilty to illegal possession of a firearm on a private flight to Florida. Kodak Black admitted to lying on multiple background checks in order to obtain guns, and at least one of them was found with his prints on it at a crime scene where it was used to shoot at a "rival rap artist."
But at the end of the day, it's not about what they did, it's just shocking that trump would pardon a couple of black men for anything. He obviously only said he'd do it because someone told him it would make him look better to "the youth," i.e. younger black voters. I don't believe for an instant that he would seriously consider pardoning either of these men of his own volition.
@@ObeyCamp why? Both of them have come out publically and supported him.
It also plays well with young voters if he does go round again in '24.
Like Candace Owens he can use them to say "look how I'm not racist".
Also most importantly both are VERY well off.
People STILL don't realise Trump is only racist when he's not blinded by green. If he can use you to make money he doesn't give a sh't about your skin.
Remember when he pardoned the war criminals and some non-violent drug offenders and people were patting him on the back for pardoning drug offenders?
The ones pardoned were all connected to the woman that Kim Kardashian had lobbied for, previously. In other words, they didn't get pardoned because of their crime or their sentence, they got pardons because of their connections to famous people.
He'll probably break the saw law within 6 months anyway then he'll be back in prison
@@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810I agree, I've frequently said, Trump's more of an elitest than a racist.
To be clear he is definitely guilty of racism & enjoying the support of racists. But I would argue that...
He is an idiot 1st
A Narcissist 2nd
An Elitest 3rd
And a Racist 4th
The West Wing would never do a plot line this insane...
If this were a TV show, the plotline would be rejected for not being believable!! 🤦🏾♀️
I think 24 tried to do something similar.
"Actual Human President" - Omicron Persei 8's favourite political drama.
Futurama reference for the WIN! :)
why doesn't Biden, the larger candidate, not simply kill and eat the smaller, weaker candidates?
@@dkroll92 This Electoral College confuses and infuriates us!
L'RRRRR!!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
"The President is not a king ordained by God."
Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of his followers would say otherwise.
I refer you to 8 years of Obama, which was very much like that for some Democrats. Let us not pretend we have seen something unique here, we definitely have not. Turns out a base is just that, the minimum supporting structure.
@@BaresarkSlayne rofl no. Not even close. Some Democrats didn't really like Obama; but he was better than the alternative.
@@BaresarkSlayne Never once did anyone suggest that Obama was above the law; Democrats simply pointed out how full of shit the right-wing media's "He'S-VioLaTinG-tHe-cOnSTiTutIOn!!" claims were. No where *_near_* the same thing.
@@BaresarkSlayne Memory is a bit fuzzy, but I don't recall a bunch of people waving Obama flags ever storming the capital.
@@BaresarkSlayne We loved Obama, but none of us treated him like a king, nor did we want him to rule like one.
The writers of The West Wing never could never have conceived of what’s happened over the last four years, much less the last 48 hours.
They would have rejected it as something so fantastical that it couldn't actually happen.
Never watch the West Wing so I can't criticize them. In 2016, Lindybiege said that it is part of problem with American political understanding. Everything was so glowy, so nice, so holy. On the other hand, the brits had Yes,Minister and The Thick of It (two comedic masterpieces that tell how the systems worked), which tell you what going on and how politicians actually get thing done or thwarted. But disappointedly, the lead writer for the Thick of It said that he cannot write political stuff anymore as the real world is indistinguisable with anything he could write. Plagiarizing real-life.
@@Account.for.Comment "plagiarizing real life"
You mean nonfiction?
Many saw the political sphere in naive terms like those writers. We are finally waking up
@@Purpleturtlehurtler that is my word. Anything he write now would felt that he ripping off the newspaper. Whereas before, he simply show the craziness behind the scene. Now the craziness is out there for everyone to see and nothing written would be a surprise.
Legal Eagle starting 2020: "Hey I started a new video platform apart from RUclips."
Legal Eagle starting 2021: "Hey, I'm going to post a bunch of videos to RUclips, because this is more important than monetization."
He's not monetized?
@@GillBearToe Usually depends on copyright claims. These videos are referring to real life issues, not 'How Many Laws Did This Movie or Show Break?' The amount of copyrighted material is not likely to be an issue in this format.
@@GillBearToe For the most part, he is. But the amount of research and professionalism he puts into his videos is likely very poorly rewarded by RUclips, especially when compared to "creators" like PewDiePie and Jake Paul.
@@eaglescout1984 RUclipsrs like PewDiePie and Jake Paul don't even get most of their money from RUclips. They do things like sponsor deals and merchandising that actually gives them more returns than the youtube monetization system ever could.
@@eaglescout1984 I love the big Eagle... but research and professionalism aren’t factors in the monetization process.
As mentioned above - sponsors and merch are a big part, but so is ad placement in videos. I just watched the most recent full length videos, and there’s an ad every 6 minutes or so. It’s not bad - LE is using his entire education toward making these videos, and he deserves every single sponsor and ad dollar he makes off these. But he’s getting paid. He’s not doing this for free. Nor should he. But I feel like I’d be disappointing the LE himself if I didn’t bring up that deservedness doesn’t equate to business monetization.
Actually - I’d love to see a video breaking down the back end of RUclips money. But I also know why that probably won’t ever happen.
this is gonna be one hell of a netflix special in a few years
It'll be shit just like most netflix originals sadly.
You're assuming this is gonna blow over. Look into the late Roman republic, there are a few similarities to the current climate. The mere existence of Trump's political career is going to have a whole bunch more people try to grab power, and probably much more intelligently.
Who’s gonna play trump in the movie they make about him probably titled “Donald”
I'd rather an "...has fallen" on this. The whole time I was watching the attempted coup I was thinking "where's Gerard Butler when you need him?"
@@MisterFro9 Basically what? A modern Sulla to the eventual destroyers of the Republic?
Seeing as how Trump has filled every post imaginable with "acting" heads, it only seems proper that we have an Acting President.
We do, he is acting like a child.
Oh wait that's not what you meant, my bad.
The White House really do be just like a Broadway play, don't it?
I always thought that "Acting President" should have been Reagan's title. He did a convincing act of playing the Presidential role...
Whereas Trump should be described as "Acting Up" as that's what he does all the time
It must be crazy times when a German - not having any professional interest - watches a 16 minute long lawyer video about one section of an Amendment to the American Constitution.
Hey, same here but I'm Italian. And I wasn't even interested in politics until a few months ago. So I agree, these are crazy times.
Until germany starts paying the NATO requirement your just scummy washed up nazis.
@@2005RavenR6 There already was an agreement in place that Germany will up their defence spending to two percent of the GDP until 2025 and we are on track with that. The pumpkin-faced moron ignored this in order to employ his usual bully tactics. And idiots like you are falling for that stupid rhetoric.
BTW: The nazis are now to be found in the U.S. as you could clearly see on the 6th of January. You may want to have a look in the mirror?
@@2005RavenR6 you’re *
Australian here.
"Well I am your king." "I didn't vote for you." "You don't vote for king...the lady of the lake..." "Look, strange women lying in ponds is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derived from a mandate of the masses, not by some farcical aquatic ceremony. If I became king just because some moisten bint, some watery tart..."
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
@@kinshiroitoro5788 I'm not sure - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I love in the beginning - a 5 oz bird cannot carry a 1 pound coconut. That whole scene where in the end they finally just leave because the conversation about swallows goes on and on (hilariously so).
@@kinshiroitoro5788 what do you mean, an African or European Swallow?
@@Blueeyedmummyful ..African.....European...African........oh shiiiiiiii...!
@@kinshiroitoro5788 African or European swallow?
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire
I believe he was referring to religion.
@@Akoalawithshades still fits here
make 1984 fiction again
The whole murican people xD
@@Akoalawithshades Trumpism IS a religion for these people. Look up some of the art they have plastered on Parler, he's like a new messiah!!
We’re gonna be unpacking this presidency for the next 50 years.
At the bare minimum
Just like we've been trying so hard to undo Reagan's presidency for the past thirty.
Longer.
Only 50 years? This will be a case study in so many fields for the rest of the foreseeable human timeline
Not a whole lot there.
Corrupt president
Spineless government lackeys
Knowledge that he will get away with it all just after 12 pm on January 20th.
Before 2015, a fictional president doing even half the things that Trump has done, would have been considered an unrealistic and a ridiculous parody.
Like... The Simpsons?
Trump basically shattered that threshold. He has done a lot more scandalous things than the infamous Nixon and yet a lot of people are ok with it.
Idiocracy used to be a satire as well.
Before 2015 fake news media wasn't real. You opinions are formed by the media.
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp this is a joke, right? Criticism of mainstream media has existed for as long as mainstream media itself. The term 'yellow journalism' was first coined all the way back in the 1890s ffs
Thank you for not presenting this video in a jaded or biased way. I really appreciate someone just presenting the facts without adding in their own opinion or emotion. Very refreshing.
I appreciate you stepping up the frequency of your videos to cover relevant current issues. Thank you!
By relevant you mean one issue
@@mikepastor.k6233 Yeah I mean the single most important thing that has happened to our country in over 200 years, that relevance. An insurrection as part of a coup instigated by the sitting President of the United States. Seems pretty "relevant" to me. Personally, I get my news from ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, AP News, Reuters, NewsMax, CNN, NBC News, and Spiegel. I look at every single one every single day to see all of the coverage to understand the truth as well as what the Left and Right are spinning about the truth. In this case, it is obvious for anyone who is open to the truth what happened.
@@mikejuice576 is there real proof the president told those protesters to storm the Capital. It was stupid and they are but as far as charging Trump with insurgency. Show me where he actually told them to try to take over the Capital by force..
@@mikepastor.k6233 Just watch the last 5 videos from LegalEagle. I think he covers the sedition pretty thoroughly. I am not here to argue and try to convince you of something. My comment was a thank you to Legal Eagle. Im out.
@@mikejuice576 yer out! Fine, but don't count on anything too much bad, legally happening to Trump, in spite of the non stop rhetoric of your charming legal eagle.
If he can't be responsible enough to have a twitter, he shouldn't have the power of the most powerful military in the world.
It's kinda the other way around, he lost his twitter because he couldnt use it in conjunction with his power as president. I'd argue the tweets Twitter cited as the cause for removal of trump are pretty weak sauce, but its clear they just wanted rid of him. Not to say they didn't have removed him, just that they could have done it ages ago and with better reason than these fairly tame tweets
He didn't lose his twitter for breaking any rules, he lost it because twitter disagrees with his politics.
@@josephcarlino869 blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html
@@josephcarlino869 go away
Not sure how Twitter bans work but certainly we know he shouldn’t have the platform making a straight lone fir the logic of this post
Everyone: *let's hope 2021 is better*
2021: *laughs in 25th amendment*
Not even a week.
Definitely a "hold my beer" moment.
And we all must take this time to remember how 2020 started.... continent on fire, possible war, political corruption and a pandemic ramping up. ahaha
I'm choosing to follow the Chinese New Year, 2021 doesn't come about till next month then. This is just 2020's wretched epilogue.
I am still optimistic, it is just a bad beginning. It is not necessarily an indicator of what the year will be.
Thank you for taking the time to research and explain this matter in a clear and easy to digest format. You are a credit to the bar and the internet.
Sarcasm?
"Not suffering from dementia."
Person, woman, man, camera, tv.
A difficult test, he said, too.
Didn't his dad suffer from dementia/alzheimers in his twilight years? Wouldn't a condition like that be genetic?
@@NobodyC13 Raised chance doesn't mean he definitely has it though.
Did you do a cocaine test before commenting?
@@todddavidson1332 Mirror, razor, snow, C-note, nostril.
100, 93, 86, 79...
I didn't really like this new season of House of Cards.
@JustVictor 17 Which is worse as a president?
@@samuelhawes6735 Trump hands down.
Dear God we can only hope the suits put us and it out of misery.
@@ThisisCitrus Tbh they way things are rn I would give Kevin Spacey an outside chance of winning the Republican nomination in 2024.
@@ThisisCitrus George W Bush thought he had worst president in the bag for decades if not centuries and along came The dangerous idiot.
I notice you're talking faster now... I guess everyone's worried something ELSE will have happened by the end of the video.
He's running out of time before YT will make him insert an ad.
Great comment!😅
So like Trump getting banned on Twitter?
@@Gondarth *LegalEagle*: God Damn It!
@@Haan22 bruh I keep trying to reply to your comment but I can't figure out how you got literal asterisks without making the text bold
I have vivid memories of Reagan's shooting. I also vividly remember Haig declaring that he was in charge, and all the brouhaha that resulted. The first reaction I heard was from my dad, who said, "He can't say that!"
3:19 Is there a single picture of Cheney where he doesn't look like a James Bond villain?
Probably not 😹😹😹😹
I looked. And literally no. You just made my night.
Even when he's doting over his daughter or talking about his weak heart. Perma-sneer.
Dick Cheney's one of those people whose outward appearence reflects his inner nature.
Kind of like a Sith Lord.
Well he basically is a James Bond villian so no. I actually googled his name and couldn't find a single picture where he doesn't bc of this comment and it gave me some much needed laughter.
As a non-American I'm quite curious to hear an actual lawyer explain this.
Boy, are you in luck
If only it were as easy to resolve as the movies.
Your lucky that you don’t have to worry about this
That's what he's here for...
??? Legal Eagle aka Devon Stone is an "actual" lawyer. It's one of the main purposes of this channel is to have a lawyer explain US law related questions. stonelawdc.com/about
Or you just mean you are curious to see the video you just commented on? That seems a bit premature, it isn't that long a video that can't be watched first.
Hey LegalEagle, I really appreciate everything you’re doing to provide information and commentary during all this. Thank you so much.
I was today years old when I found out that Elaine Chao was Mitch McConnell's wife.
I was today years old when I realized that Mitch McConnell was married.
*shudder*
This is his second marriage too! I believe he spawned children with the first wife
And now you're imagining him having sex, have fun with that.
@@SpaceManRD I wasn’t and now I am. I’m so mad at you for that.
@@SpaceManRD oof.. ugh...
@@SpaceManRD don't need to imagine cuz Pablo Francisco has that skit about cartoon character of droopy dog having sex
Devin: "At the time of this recording..."
Future-Devin: "You rang?"
And now he's permanently banned from Twitter
Though it was a 12 hour band, doesn’t he have his account back
@@Mayhem_Inc that was before, he was just now perma banned.
Good
@@AstradTheCynic Oh. Wow
A lot of good that does when he decides to play with the football.
Can't wait to see Christian bale as donald Trump in a few years. He's got a lot of work ahead of him to get the right shade of orange!
Nah, that is just spray on. It's fast and costs $5.99 at the drug store. He is good. Cheapest makeup job the studio would ever have to pay for.
It's also gonna be hard for him to get in shape for the role. Tryin to look like a sagging, rotted pear in profile is more an art than a science.
@@ianwells7916 Try using a sagging old actor.
@@johndododoe1411 why not cast Trump himself? I'm sure they'd let them film in jail.
@@ianwells7916 They can do that with make-up. Lol when they make you look worse with make-up delibrately, it's called a make-under.
bro this dude looks like if Ryan Renolds was a Pixar character
Ikr he kinda looks like the main character from Onward
Jim from the office
fix it felix
"Section 4 has never been invoked before..."
Like scout-master Kevin use to say,
"There's a first time for everything, son.."
That's the reason why we create the thing in the first place, to eventually use it when we need to. Section 4 ain't some random OPM statute, it's literally written into the U.S. Constitution.
@@jeremyc4811 I’m amazed by how the founding fathers thought of everything and even made it vague so it could be applied to future events that are somewhat similar, I just want to hug them and say “Thank You, I love you uwu”
I’m kidding, ew no, stop.
Next Video from Wendover Productions: "the logistics of removing an impeached President by airplane."
good one !
Lol highly underrated comment
Hmm. The title will not have airplanes in it. But you know that 50% of the vid will be about it
then ...."by Space X Rocket.
😂
“I’m the president, wheeeee!”
-Mike Pence, 2021
I love the Hamilton reference
@@DavidPerez-ff9hy I'm the general wheeeee!
hah just makes me think it'd be a funny hashtag for removing Trump from office. #Pence2021
Sadly? Pence seems to be the speed bump, not the accelerator.
And that's the problem with a Section 4 invocation - it's absolutely dependent on there being a Vice President willing to invoke it.
If he does become the president, here's hoping he just keeps his head down until Enogeration Day and does pull all the pardoning people are afraid he'll do.
16:05 I am still cleaning coffee out of my keyboard. This was hilarious. This dude is a legend and this is one of the few channels I would actually pay to keep watching.
I had the thought this morning, seeing more Cabinet members and acting Cabinet members resigning is that they aren't "rats abandoning a sinking ship" as has been thought by a few, but an attempt to avoid being drawn into the 25th Amendment possibility. In other words, if they aren't there, they can't be made to respond to it.
This is it exactly. Just like everything else they do, his cronies act out of self interest. What's good for Americans isn't the first or second consideration when making a decision.
Which is exactly why they are rats abandoning a sinking ship.
@@tophers3756 It also means they dodge the whole "loyalty to Trump" issue.
Everything the Trump croonies do has like 10 different reasons and none of then good.
Taking some heat for being a rat is infinitely better than being thrown into a furnace for your potential decision in the 25th amendment.
Absolutely selfish, but honestly the backlash otherwise from either side would be immense.
You know Trump done goofed when Legal Eagle has 3 full videos in 4 days.
😹😹😹😹 poor Devon prob hasnt slept
@@kitwhite2640 his name is Devon? I have watched him since last spring and I have never heard his real name.
@@eken1725 Devin, not Devon 😅
@@eken1725 Devin James Stone
I was just thinking that when this video came up.
Does anyone else think "I can't wait to see the highlights and breakdown on Legal Eagle" as political shit hits the fan?
that highlights and breakdown video could easily take up an hour
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As I was watching everything happen on Wednesday, I kept thinking that Devon had to have been going as insane as I was and that the incoming videos were going to be crazy.
Very much so, he does an excellent job of providing a fairly detailed but accessible discussion of legal/political stuff.
Also solid pfp
Yes. I'm Australian and everything I know about US law (apart from patents and copyrights, which I worked in for a while) is very basic. Devin always breaks these down very clearly for the layperson and I really enjoy his videos.
He wasn't unable, he was unwilling. It isn't disability guiding his actions or inaction, it is demagoguery.
Which is why, from a rational standpoint, this is obviously not the sort of thing the 25th was designed for. That minimal requirement to write that you're able to execute the duties of office indicates that this is specifically to deal with an incapacitated, rather than an incompetent, executive.
25th ammendment clearly states incapable to execute. Unwilling and incapable are 2 diferent things beyond simple semantics. One is attributed and meant for things like senile dementia, where the president MIGHT believe he is "fine" but really isnt. Unwilling or incompetence does not really apply.
Unless the supreme court says otherwise. But for the supreme court to have a choice in the matter. Someone has to enact the 25th ammendment. The problem is time. Is pretty doubtful to ger a resolution to this before January 20.
@@Rockboygg It seems pretty clear to me that it would be a nonjusticiable political question whether the VP, cabinet and Congress need a reason at all, never mind whether the reason must be that POTUS is "unable" as opposed to "unwilling".
Unable by temperment.
Unable: He's not in his right mind.
Having the visual of the remaining cabinet members really drove it home.
It also makes it easier to think on the increased importance of the ones that are still in their functions (if the temporary replacements are not allowed to vote the Vice_President´s proposal).
Seems the issue here is whether " unable" to carry out his duties includes "unwilling" to carry out his duties.
as a non-us non-lawyer I'd say it doesn't...
that's what impeachment is for...
@@FulloutPostal impeachment is a lot more complicated....
I mean, even when he was willing to do his presidential duties, he never actually had the ability to.
Can I drink a glass of water or may I drink a glass of water. Doesn't matter if he drink water like a child. I think he was actually always unable.
Only if they spin it as "a fascist dictator can't carry out the duties of a democratic president"
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Except that one famous Roman emperor Cincinnatus.
ok big brain
@@lukerudolph880 Washington never seized power. He begrudgingly went along with it because he felt obligated due to demand of the populos.
@@RequiemPoete oh my bad I did not see it say seize power. In that case I am wrong. Thank you for correcting me. I will correct that now.
Truer words were never written. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, as this administration has shown all too well.
I vote impeach. He shouldn't be allowed any where near office ever again & shouldn't have the priveledges afforded a former president.
"The 25th Amendment had several sections, the *first* of which is section *3*."
Ah, yes, algebruh.
Look, these people are politicians not mathematicians, they have aids do that kind of stuff.
Probably section 1 and 2 might be technical or reversed sections
I think section 1 and 2 are basically "here's what this amendment is" and then "here's the Apple terms of service."
@@lhfirex "This is the 25th amendment, of all the amendments, this is the one that happened 25th. It came after the 24th, and if the 26th had happened before it, it would have been called the 25th and this the 26th. The 27th is way off... Hey, Alan, do you think we've hit the word count yet?"
The first two sections are short single sentences that just explain what it is. 3 and 4 are much longer and get into specifics and details and different possibilities and legalities.
SECTION 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
SECTION 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the
Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President
who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of
both Houses of Congress.
As a Canadian who isn't familiar with US Constitutional studies:
"lol discharge his duties"
You said "duty"
*giggles like a 1st grader*
In other parts of the world where 'duty' is pronounced correctly, we laugh at Americans on this point.
@@30noir How do other parts of the world pronounce it? "Du'y"?
@@daviddong6650 more like "doody". Hence the childish giggling. That said, I often giggle and make the "you said doody" comment myself. :D
This phrase isn't exclusive to the US constitution and it's not as if you live in a non-English speaking nation.
I never thought Lil Wayne or Kodak Black would be featured names in a video regarding the 25th Amendment, yet here we are.
That clause should have been amended to "unable OR unwilling to perform the duties of the office"
“unwilling” could be dangerously politicized. One could argue the incumbent is “unwilling” to pass policy that helps a particular political party, and makes the term itself very vague.
@@EgoPersons Aww. You're probably right. Still, there needs to be a specific clause that punishes a President for fomenting violence that isn't JUST based on congress having the integrity to do so.
@@teamceline9712 woundt you risk for it to be used in case of war?
Sounds like the 25th amendment needs to be immediately amended to include the phrase “unable or unwilling to discharge the powers of their office“ to prevent any future incidents such as this.
Sadly that is also a problematic solution, the president may look unwilling or unable to perform task because he sees the bigger picture ( Not this president, he's terrible and was definition of incompetent and traitours.) Think what republican would have said about Obama for things like Iran and pressured to remove him on those grounds.
@@matthewkane1188 yeah but reasonable person standard would apply and then the senate would get to debate about it as opposed to just letting them run amok
@@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei we just saw an angry mob attack the capital and republican supporters blamed it on Antifa that Window of Sanity got lost in the house fire started by the dumpster fire of the current. president
Problem there, as w/ changing many things in Costitution that "should" be changed, is an amendment is almost impossible, given size & division of US now.
Perhaps 1st change they should try to make is how the Const gets amended?
Amendment 14, Sec. 3:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States...shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
I wonder if they will apply that to the capital "selfie" cops? Hell, I doubt this will get applied at all, just a lot of bluster to ride out the next 12 days and then try to move on like insurrection didn't happen.
Pisses me off so much I'm using vulgarities in Legal Eagle's comment section, and I never do that.
@@MonkeyJedi99 He's implying to apply it to Representatives and Senators, not every Capitol Police Officer.
LoL, i love this tired line. 40 people rioting, getting arrested, some people were even killed, charges pressed, support by literally no one. That isn't an insurrection, you dolt.
@@AVeryRandomPerson I bring up the capitol police because they work for the the United States government, which makes them holders of a civil office under the United States.
But I agree, apply it to all who have earned it!
@@BaresarkSlayne Drump literaly said "youre special". If that's not supporting it, i dont know what is.
Read up on it this morning, but so glad you did a video. I was so confused.
It’s more like House of Cards than The West Wing!
and its more a political stunt for brownie points than an actual impeachment!
@@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236 Or a diversion from other things at play
Now with 50% more sexual harassment!
"Talking about removing the president". I've heard this one before... I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
Ain't that the truth.
"The 25th amendment has several sections, the first is section 3"
I'm sorry what?
The first two sections deal with succession and sections 3 and 4 deal with a president being unable to perform his duties. They are the relevant sections for this discussion.
Star Wars has several movies; the first is Episode IV
Section 1 says that if the Presidency is vacated, the VP becomes President. Believe it or not that wasn’t stated in the original Constitution. Section 2 states how a vacancy in the VP slot can be filled. Amazingly enough again, they forgot to add that the first time. Until the 60s, a VP vacancy just left the slot open until the next election. Sections 3 and 4 are the ones that are relevant to taking away a President’s power.
@@DrAndyShick 🤣 yes
It's like learning about the blood clot cascade in physiology. The blood clot factors are numbered after the order in which they were discovered and not the order in which they act in the cascade. Which as you can imagine makes learning it a little tricky.
Me: I hope LegalEagle uploads again
RUclips: Uploaded one minute ago...
Literally just watched his other video 30 seconds ago.
@Ana Petrosky great SCOTUS pick hahah!!
Thanks for manifesting that for us
Some people are commenting that these past 4 years have been more crazy than even the writers on The West Wing could come up with. I'd say it's perfectly in line with the plot of the short-lived TV show Brain Dead.
Man I just wanna stop living through historical events this is so stressful
Yep haha
give it 15 years or so, kids will ask you "How did you live through that?" while staring amazed up at you like you're a hero
So true!!
I'm happy to struggle through ... as long as the bulk of the bad stuff is behind us 🤞🤞🤞
This is why "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. I always understood that academically, but it's only in the last year that I understand it emotionally.
They have no grit. He'll be there until jan 20. It's not right but it's how i feel this will shake out.
He should be there till 2025, he won the election. Stop the steal. Jesus will prevail. Demon will lose
That's the way I see it as well. They are talking about it now, but nothing will come of it unfortunately.
@@abparker9971 Trump is not Jesus and it's quite frankly insulting to put them in the same sentence.
Absolutely. I think people who call for the 25th amendment are a little naive. There's no way the GOP is gonna take the brunt of political backlash from Trump's supporters on themselves by invoking 25th amendment, even if it's proven that he has really gone crazy. The Dem just has to man up and impeach him.
@@abparker9971 Sorry to tell you this but Trump came in second place in a two horse race.
"This might me a little controversial but most people would agree he's not suffering from dementia"
I actually snorted xD
Dementia might be used as a defense. So, in spite of the evidence that he is stark raving mad, no he’s not suffering from dementia.
As someone who dealt with dementia in the family, he's showing early signs but not "troubling signs" if he was not president. It may not be dementia but CNS exhaustion from a combination of Trump's stimulant use and covid diagnosis.
The main reason this isn't used is because A) Historically Reagan served in much worse condition, B) it would not be a guarantee Trump is kept out of office, and C) as someone else pointed out, a dementia claim could provide Trump an insanity plea on his crimes to escape ALL prosecution. Not just for Federal Crimes, which he has the power to pardon others for.
Dementia would count as being unable to perform as president. Dr. Suess makes more sense than this guy.
Agreed but it's not dementia, he "suffers" from narcissistic socio/psychopathic personality disorder.
Snorted? No, more like a show of stupid.
Great vid, you have calmed down now and this longer format is much better that trying to make some onrly acted short. Thanks for interesting information
If there's one lesson to learn from the last 4 years, it's that we need to rethink the unchecked power that the President has. Consequences-free Presidents can't happen again.
Yeah, but this is a path the country has been moving towards for the last century as the executive branch grows and grows and power is pulled from the people to the federal government. This is not a recent change.
Constitutionally he doesn't have unchecked power. That's shit presidents have been accumulating for decades
Did you miss the 8 years of Obama?
The issue is that most of the powers he has have a legitimate purpose to be used in extreme cases.
He's just the only one who disgraced the office by blatantly taking advantage mostly for personal gain.
The fire extinguisher on the wall is meant to put out fires, but there's nothing in that extinguisher to stop someone from blasting people with it.
But we can all agree that in most circumstances, having a fire extinguisher is better than not.
"The 25th amendment have several sections, the first of which is section three" is pretty funny...
I didn't get it
@@michaelschweigart3517 The first section logically should be section 1
I had a giggle
Did they repeal the first two or something?
Edit: apparently it's the lines of succession for the president (sec1) and vicep (sec2) and don't need to be invoked. So I guess what Mr Stone meant was that sec3 is the first section that can be invoked
@@krissp8712 Yeah, the first section relevant to these circumstances is section three.
Someday in the future there is literally going to be
A. a college/ high school course that is: the history of 2020
B. a law school course called the precedents of the unprecedented: 2020
And those courses will be at least 4 semesters, 2-hour classes. (One quarter of the year per semester.)
Are there courses on, say, 1968? Really, are there?
word! constitutional law classes in every law school will NEVER be the same
At this point, there is so much going on, my head is spinning...I would take said class just for clarity
I have been binge watching a lot of your videos, and thought I should probably thank you.
As a European from a not English speaking country it is very hard to find any information regarding the situation in the USA that is not (excuse my lack of appropriate words) written in duckling shakespearian English... Or laws as it is known otherwise.
So yeah, thank you for explaining everything simple enough for us non-lawyers to understand, but still with enough factually correct information to actually gain knowledge.
You are appreciated all over the world (I'd say)
But also as a European I'm shocked that the US could come this close to becoming a dictatorship and that many still support Trump even though he made a mockery of the US. While no man should be sacred the institutions and it's symbols should be.
Where the Peruvian constitution mentions “moral incapacity.” Though theirs is unfortunately a country where every living president save one (an interim) is under some sort of criminal cloud. And I am a Colombian, and we love Peruvians, but...
*laughs in Brazil*
"The 25th Amendment has several sections, the first is section 3."
I know he means that the first /relevant/ section is section 3, but I still can't help but make a "lawyers can't count" joke
[Acktually] It is rather clever: -> Metadata [invisible ink on the backside]
(Section 1): This is the last section. [stuff about 1]
(Section 2): This is not the first section. [other stuff 2]
(Section 3): ...~whatever~. [This should be used before POTUS is unconcious...]
Only the money. (See Rudy Giuliani’s $20,000 a day.)
*everyone:* _CGP Grey flashbacks_
But of course, shenanigans beget shenanigans
@@bernardosantos8020 And more shenanigans beget more shenanigans
Why does that sound so familiar? I'm afraid to Google it.
When the president went under surgery, he said dont you get any ideas. *stares VP in the face* And Not you either *Stares at the soviets*
@@o0Avalon0o no fear great channel. Not that side of the internet. I recommend his video on being a pirate or rules for rulers.
we’ve been in so much uncharted territory over the past 4 years...
We must now get rid of Biden and make Harris president for her entire life time. We’ve suffered enough from those Republicans and it’s time to get rid of their propaganda and incumbents. Harris for life!
@@wyattb3138 as glad as I am that biden picked harris, no. I prefer biden over harris.
(so no) “we” don’t need to get rid of biden. he will be your president... and with any luck, she’ll run again.
maybe this time, she’ll address her problematic stint as a prosecutor a little better.
“Anything that could happen to a human president”
Ah so I guess it can’t apply to Trump after all.
I thought you meant he was an alien... then I got it.
Correct. Fucker isn't human.
@@KojinMacJorn No I meant HE ONE OF THEM GUV’MENT LIZARD PEOPLES
I caught that too. I'm not sure it was consciously meant that way, but still great.
Rotfl.
I think Trump is an android powered by a neural network, fed data by 4Chan and Facebook to generate sentences, make tweets, and make presidential decisions. Though, I’m pretty sure Microsoft Tay would have been a less controversial president than Trump.
"...took the power away from Dick Cheny"
riiIIIIIIiiigghht.
Can you explain?
@@seasesh4073 look up "eminence grise"
@@seasesh4073 The Bush administration was effectively the Cheney administration. Bush had no interest in policy or politics (like most Americans in the early 2000s), which is partially why Bush always polled well for likability. Bush might have had his signature on the paperwork, but Cheney was the one directing national policy; Cheney was very effective at it too, achieving almost all of his goals before leaving office.
I would be more willing to believe that Game of Thrones was actually a documentary than believe ANYONE took ANYTHING away from Dick Cheney (well except for attorney Harry Whittington removing a shotgun from Mr. Cheney's cold living hands).
@@marikotrue3488 I'm sure he was like "oh DAMN! Did I do that? Hey, you okay there? Just a little bleeding? Put a bandaid on that, he'll be allright"
I laughed so hard at that picture at 13:26. Sometimes I forget he's so weird looking, I guess I've just gotten used to seeing the crazy spray tan
There is a CLEAR issue of mental health at play here, not dementia but Malignant Narcissism.
It's a shame "being a giant asshole" isn't an excuse to have someone sectioned, we could probably have him thrown out overnight.
If you could impeach politicians for narcissism, we would have no politicians left.
@@jacobhayes4085 depends. Are they maladaptive or adaptive narcissists? A maladaptive narcissist - like many believe Trump is - has characteristics unfit for many jobs let alone the highest office of the land. Adaptive narcissists use their traits in a way that happens to benefit others, relatively speaking.
Keep in mind that you can have many narcissistic traits and not be a narcissist, and that just because many of a group seem to have those traits doesn't mean that we can excuse clear cut cases where someone has without question displayed exploitative, entitled and exhibitionist behaviors to abuse others.
@@MiniiCitrus Real talk - is there legal precedent for removing someone from a government office on the grounds of behavior patterns conforming to maladaptive narcissism? If so, "being a giant asshole" might actually be grounds for impeachment.
*4 years is a long, long time for someone to be president*
*Me:* Cries in 7 year terms and indefinite reelection for presidents in Venezuela.
How is Venezuela these days?
Australia also has indefinite re-elections for our prime minister but we’ve also had three prime ministers in five years between 2015 - 2020 so...
@@audreyraj5626 the pm is just the leader of their party so it's less of a big deal being one.
My condolences
how about Angela Merkle?
That subtle body language "took power back from Dick Cheney." I saw what you did there.
Dick Cheney was put in charge twice... oh dear god. Sadly, I would prefer a Cheney presidency over Trump at this point. At least we could call him President Darth Vader because of his artificial heart.
I was just waiting for a comment or action about Dick Cheney when he started to talk about the 25th amendment being used previously lol.
@Redwood Rebelgirl Only the number that could go on hunting trips with him.
bold of these people to hand in their two weeks notice less than two weeks before they're set to be fired
I love that the top video suggestion and auto-next-play from this vid is your react to Liar Liar.
"The real 25th Amendment has several sections. The first is Section 3." That's a weird numbering system, but OK.
I think he meant the first one that we must focus on is no. 3, but I may be wrong 😅
Section 1 and 2 are outlined in the constitution already but they are very vague and prone to misinterpretation... the 25th amendment offers a mechanism for removal and details the process
@@adityamangleek1470 Oh, yeah, I know. I was just making a joke.
@@walttholomew The joke made me smile. :) Also, funnily enough, since they don't actually remove the canceled text or update the numbering of lists when the Constitution is amended, if the 25th Amendment has itself been amended, it actually could be a list where the first item is No. 3, or even 3.03.
@@intro.vertex So it's more of an addendum vs a change.
If anything the lesson of the past 4 years is that we desperately need MORE checks on presidential power, not fewer.
Doesn't matter if the ones holding the checks are a corrupt party aiding and abetting a treasonous president. They can clearly invoke the 25th, but they haven't. They can impeach him, but that requires a 2/3 vote and a trial, which the Republicans also refuse. And have refused for everything from the Russian investigation to the first impeachment and will refuse in the second. And if anything goes to the Supreme Court, we already know what sort of people are in the majority right now.
You've churned our more videos in the past couple of days than ever before. Thanks for keeping us objectively informed
Hes prolly exhausted
Love your content and insight. I'm glad a channel like yours exists