Several Republican lawmakers are urging members of US President Joe Biden’s cabinet to invoke an amendment to the Constitution to disqualify him from office, after A report from a prosecutor called into question the president’s poor memory.

“Merrick Garland (the attorney general) has a duty toand invoke the 25th amendment before his cabinet colleagues. Or prosecute Biden. If he is not going to prosecute him, then he should invoke 25 now,” Senator Josh Hawley said this Friday on the social network X.

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that members of the cabinet can remove the president of his duties if he is deemed incapable of carrying out the powers and duties of the office.

If that were to happen, the current vice president, Kamala Harris, would be the one who would assume the Presidency until the next elections in November. Republican Representative Claudia Tenney, for her part, also sent a letter yesterday to Garland requesting that he invoke the 25th amendment in the cabinet.

Republican lawmakers made these requests after special prosecutor Robert Hur presented his document management report classified by Biden.

Hur concluded that Biden intentionally withheld classified documents from his time as vice president, but decided not to press charges against him. What caught the most attention about the report, however, was that Hur claimed that Biden showed a “significantly limited memory” during the interrogations carried out in 2023.

The special counsel revealed that Biden did not He remembered the dates on which he held the Vice Presidency and that he had difficulty remembering the date of his son Beau’s death in 2015.

In an appearance Thursday night at the White House, Biden defended that his memory is in good conditionbut at one point he referred to Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, as the “president of Mexico.”

The lapses of Biden, who at 81 is the oldest president to have ever occupied the White House, are increasingly frequent, something that could mean a problem in the middle of the electoral campaign for his re-election.