Jamie Raskin - Democrats at a new low

House Democrats introduce 25th Amendment bill targeting Trump in a move with zero chance of success

House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a 10-page bill that would create a 17-member commission to evaluate whether President Donald Trump is mentally or physically fit to serve, a maneuver built on the 25th Amendment that has no realistic path forward in a Republican-controlled Congress.

The legislation, introduced by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland, landed with 50 Democratic co-sponsors. It arrived in the wake of Trump's social media post warning that a "whole civilization will die tonight" during the standoff with Iran, a statement that triggered a wave of Democratic calls for removal or impeachment.

The bill would empower a panel of physicians, psychiatrists, and former senior executive-branch officials, appointed by congressional leaders of both parties, to conduct a medical examination of the president and determine whether he can discharge the duties of his office.

It is, by any honest reading, a political statement dressed in constitutional clothing.

Trump's point, that Tehran's longstanding "Death to America" rhetoric draws no comparable outrage from the same Democrat lawmakers now demanding his removal.

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