The attorney general of West Virginia, Republican Patrick Morrisey, asked US Vice President Kamala Harris this Tuesday to invoke the 25th amendment of the Constitution to disqualify as president Joe Biden81 years old.
Morrissey He supported his letter on the report of special prosecutor Robert Hur with the conclusions of the investigation carried out on Biden for the retention of classified documents from his time as vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017), where although he recommended not charging him, he stressed that demonstrated a memorysignificantly limited”.
“The president’s cognitive decline Biden It is something that Americans are very concerned about, especially in these times when our nation faces one crisis after another both here and abroad. We need a mentally capable president”said the West Virginia attorney general.
For Morrisseythe report of Hur “presents a clear picture of a president who is unfit for office”.
For this reason, he urged Harris to make use of that amendment that allows members of the cabinet to remove the president from his duties if they consider him incapable of carrying out the powers and duties of the office.
“The 25th Amendment was designed for times like this“, he highlighted in that letter, where although he admitted that it is a “extreme measure“urged to see”beyond” of the personal relationship between Biden and the vice president to evaluate the situation objectively.
In case of refusal, Morrissey He asked Harris to leave the decision in the hands of the country’s attorney general, Merrick Garland.
The attorney general of West Virginia is not the first to speak along those lines.
On February 9, a group of Republican legislators also urged the use of this constitutional resource.
“Merrick Garland has a duty to invoke the 25th Amendment to his Cabinet colleagues. Or prosecute Biden. If he’s not going to prosecute you, then let him invoke 25 now“said Senator Josh Hawley, among others, on the social network X.
Faced with this type of demands, the White House defends that the mentions of Biden’s cognitive state do not correspond to reality, has described these comments as gratuitous and asks to focus on the main conclusion of the report: that he did not intentionally take classified documents and that he didn’t share them either.
Source: Gestion
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