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The Atlantic The Entire Point of the 25th Amendment
There can be no confusion over who is president, even for a moment.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Happens If a Presidential Candidate Becomes Incapacitated or Dies
Rules exist for what could come next, but they won’t prevent total chaos.
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Grabowski Foto / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Very Real Problem of Both Trump and Pence Getting COVID-19 at the Same Time
If the president and the vice president become incapacitated simultaneously, the country could face a constitutional crisis.
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Klara Auerbach How TV Taught America Bad Constitutional Law
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment was never meant to be used to remove a terrible—albeit alert—president from office. But that’s not what the country has learned from Hollywood.
