House Democrats Propose Commission to Scrutinize Trump’s Fitness for Office
“We are at a dangerous precipice, and it is now a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its responsibilities under the 25th Amendment …”
House Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation to form a 17-member commission to evaluate President Donald Trump’s fitness for office, with an eye toward invoking the 25th Amendment.
Aside from the reality that the 25th Amendment can only be invoked by the vice president and must be backed by a majority of the cabinet, this proposal has virtually no chance of passing in a Republican-controlled House. Even if, by some absurd twist of fate, the bill reached the president’s desk, he would simply veto it.
Nevertheless, citing national security concerns related to the president’s recent rhetoric on the war in Iran, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) proposed the measure, which was co-sponsored by 50 of his Democratic colleagues.
Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin is once again introducing a bill to invoke the 25th amendment to remove President Trump.
Raskin admits he already tried this in 2017 and 2020.
Democrats are only focused on stopping President Trump, not helping the American people. pic.twitter.com/Q85IxaQzgW
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 13, 2026
Specifically, Democrats were pretty worked up over Trump’s Easter morning missive to the mullahs to “Open the F***in Strait” followed by his warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Say what you will about the president’s rhetoric, but he caught the Iranians’ attention.
It sure was a lot more effective than Joe Biden’s message of “Don’t, don’t,” or Barack Obama’s decision to send a plane load of cash to regime leaders.
"Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell" — Jake Tapper reads Trump's Truth Social post on air pic.twitter.com/I2qHtWsX8d
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 5, 2026
President Trump ROASTS people crying over his “a civilization will die tonight” post
“That statement brought them to the table!”
“I’ve had to listen to them say death to America. We will destroy America. Anybody ever complain to you when they say that?” pic.twitter.com/JHDGFaKd4z
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) April 12, 2026
At any rate, in a Tuesday press release, Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said, “We are at a dangerous precipice, and it is now a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its responsibilities under the 25th Amendment to protect the American people from an increasingly volatile and unstable situation.”
He also tried to explain why Congress is justified in usurping authority it does not possess: It’s part of their responsibility to “ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the presidency.”
This body is the legislative counterpart to the Cabinet and would have the power to work with the Vice President.
Essentially, the 25th Amendment gives us a constitutional answer to any medical crisis that might occur. In a House Judiciary press release, enable Congress to ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the presidency. This body is the legislative counterpart to the Cabinet and would have the power to work with the Vice President. Essentially, the 25th Amendment gives us a constitutional answer to any medical crisis that might occur.
While the Constitution does not grant Congress the authority to invoke the 25th amendment, it does provide them with another way to remove a president they consider unfit: impeachment. House Democrats are well aware of this option. They’ve already wielded this weapon against Trump — twice — when the party controlled Congress. And they’ve threatened to use it again on countless occasions.
But, since all of this is performative anyway, why don’t they pursue a third impeachment?
Because Democrats worry an impeachment could backfire politically — especially in an election year. Such a move would be more apt to strengthen Trump politically than to hurt him. It would make him more sympathetic to voters and would energize his base.
In remarks at an “Inside Congress” event sponsored by Cornell University’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in May 2019, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Trump is goading us to impeach him. That’s what he’s doing. Every single day, he’s just like, taunting, taunting, taunting, because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn’t really care. [He] just wants to solidify his base.”
I would argue that Democrats’ current efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment, a remedy that is beyond their jurisdiction, make them look even more foolish. Desperate even.
In the end, they likely view it as political red meat — an exercise designed to excite donors and fuel fundraising.
As ridiculous as it is, if Democrats win back control of the House in November, this is what we can expect. They do investigations as harassment so much better than Republicans.
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More villages, missing their idiots.
No, they’d only be idiots if they believed their own BS.
It would be interesting if they formed a commission to investigate their own members like, idk, Swalwell.
I think that the villages are happy that their idiots left.
MontCo – as always the tip of the sparse.
If you wanted to scrutinize a president’s fitness you would be concerned when:
1. The president could not answer reporter’s questions, but had to read answers from note cards.
2. He needed note cards to tell him when to stand up and sit down and what people’s name’s were (even showing their picture on the card)
3. When he needed the Easter bunny to shoo him away when he was going the wrong way
4. When he couldn’t walk up the tall stairs on AF1 but required shorter stairs to come out the rear of the plane.
5. When he was able to conduct only 9 cabinet meeting in 4 years
6. When he made 76 trips to his home in Delaware to rest and recuperate (trips to Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach homes exceeded 265 days).
Biden didn’t need to run cabinet meetings. Jill was covering for him.
Not fair, Paula. You’re keeping score. That’s strictly against the (Dems’) rules.
They can scrutinize all they want, but they can’t do a damn thing about it. They have no constitutional authority to initiate anything. We should encourage this — while they’re wasting their time on this fruitless endeavor, they’re not doing something else that would really be dangerous.
But they ARE wasting *OUR* money!
How so? How much would this circus trick cost? The members are already being paid, and wouldn’t be paid more, so their time wouldn’t cost us anything. Unless they hire new staff for this effort, existing staff are already being paid so there’s no extra cost.
Research “opportunity costs.”
As Henry Bowman pointed out, the opportunity “costs” here are negative — the more time they spend on such foolish pursuits the better off we are, so we should encourage them.
see their insanity counters any and I mean any jokes and ‘misq” that trump sometimes fires off
the lefty is mentally ill
trumps just a sound business leader that they hate and has a tough persona..which they hate
unless its one of their so called females that has a tough persona
If you bothered to read the 25th the left is screwed after they allowed dictator autopen to hold office.
No, that’s neither here nor there. Harris’s decision not to remove Biden has no bearing on whether Vance should attempt to remove Trump.
Nothing is set in stone. There’s still Judge James Boasberg.
There are a multitude of democrats who are unfit for office. Start with them. Let them clean their own house first.
Hmm. Does anyone have any doubt how that diagnosis goes?
Republican? Crazy.
Named Trump? Double crazy.
Orange man? Triple Crazy.
Eats McDonald’s? Drinks Diet Coke? Two scoops of ice cream? Invoke the 25th now! To save democracy!
Funny how they overlooked doing something like this while that Brain Dead Cadaver in a Diaper, i.e., Joe Autopen, soiled the White House.
These Commie Donks are not fit to be in any seats of power or even in our Country; they should all be wearing straight jackets and sitting in padded rooms of a Mental Institution.
If we don’t all learn how to use “strait” properly, it’s going to end up like “niggardly.” Just a warning.
“Straight” as in “not gay” was originally spelled “strait”, but I think we lost that sometime in the 1950s or even earlier. By the 1960s people thought it was “straight” as in “not bent”, but they forgot that “bent” itself was originally a pun on “strait” sounding like “straight”.
It’s amazing that you can type so well with your head so far inside your bowel.
For anyone who cares….
“The term straight originated as a mid-20th century gay slang term for heterosexuals, ultimately coming from the phrase “to go straight” (as in “straight and narrow” “
So in addition to a liar you’re also an idiot and an ignoramus, and now the whole blog can see it.
It’s “strait and narrow”, not “straight”, you pig-ignorant boor.
Swalwell Under Federal Investigation For Alleged Sexual Assault.
Have a great weekend, Jamie.
More enemy action.
Man, I know that photographers try so hard to get a good shot of Raskin but when you’re as 🐕 💩 ugly as he is you break a lot of camera lenses.
Oh, but they protected the Auto-Pen President like he was smart and on top of anything.
The only thing for sure is Raskin is definitely not fit for office he holds. A very loose cannon.
“We are at a dangerous precipice”
In the words of Col. Jessup, “Is there another kind?”
To paraphrase Shakespeare: “First, kill all the democrats”…
No. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” is a diabolical plot by would-be dictators to remove the people’s protection from them. Killing the Democrats would actually help to prevent dictatorship rather than to protect it!
Where did you get this apparently genetic predisposition to Be “council for the defense” for anything the Democrats want to do?
In this case, Millhouse was simply clarifying the meaning of a quote from Shakespeare. And, he is correct!
Why does that offend you?
In addition to showing your own ignorance, in what way was that a defense of Democrats?! You’re not only ignorant, but also stoopid. incapable of understanding plain reasoning.
Raskin can’t even find a decent barber, and HE believes he is suitable to evaluate President Trump?
They closed the Congressional barbershop didn’t they? No more free haircuts for Jaime.
Every Republican president in my lifetime – Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I & II, Trump – has been the target of at least one coup attempt by the Communist Party. If McCain or Romneycare had somehow oozed into the Presidency they would also have been targets.
The single most important fact of the last one hundred years is they the Communist Party believes it alone has the right to rule, and any method used to achieve that (murder, mayhem, etc) is not only permissible but morally mandatory. An actual civil war is now inevitable.
I propose a commission to scrutinize the true hairline of Jamie Raskin.
What responsibilities? Congress has no role whatsoever under the 25th amendment, unless and until the vice president and the cabinet decide to remove the president claiming he’s unfit, and he disputes that decision. Then and only then does Congress play a role, to resolve the dispute. No attempted coup by Vance, no protest by the president, no role for Congress.
Where in the constitution is that responsibility to be found?
Basically the plan of the 25th amendment expects that most of the time there will be no dispute. Its framers expected that it would most likely be invoked when the president is incapable of functioning, but is also incapable of resigning; he’s either in a coma or babbling in a wheelchair, and thus will not dispute his removal. The purpose is simply to provide a way of removing him without subjecting him to the disgrace of impeachment.
But because there is the possibility of abuse by the VP and cabinet, who might use it to remove a perfectly capable president just because they want power, it includes a backup. If the president protests his removal, which itself is a strong indication that he’s competent, then and only then does Congress step in. And they deliberately made removing him by that process harder than impeachment, precisely to stop stunts like this.
I seem to recall reading you here some time ago pointing out that an impeachment/trial only requires a simple majority in the House and 2/3rds of the Senate, but the 25th amendment requires 2/3rds of the House and 2/3rds of the Senate to remove. So, the 25th amendment calls are just for show.
But perhaps, we could better spend out time looking into Congressional fitness for office .. sort of a 25th amendment for Representatives and Senators.
That in addition to the vice president and a majority of the cabinet! So yes, by design it’s harder to remove a president this way than by impeachment — provided he protests. If he doesn’t protest then it’s easier. The anticipation was that in most cases he would not be in a position to object to his removal, because he’d be unaware of it.
Largely correct but the key point is that whether it is the Cabinet or this bogus Democrat-suggested ‘Commission” making the initial declaration, the VP HAS to agree (“Section 4 Whenever the Vice President and …), and Mike Pence ain’t VP anymore.
I know their commission to investigate President Autopen was a smash hit and revealed all kinds of evidence he was senile and a cabal led by his wife was actually running things. Wait, that didn’t happen and despite all the public evidence of Biden’s increasing senility Democrats assured us he was on the ball and even KJP couldn’t keep up with his marathon pace. They can all shut up now. They lost the election and can’t deal with it. It’s funny that when they question elections of who was elected it’s just fine but when Republicans do it’s a threat to our democracy. Seems like a one way street to me
Lived in MD for over 20 yrs. Raskin has always been a lying sack of self-important shite.
I think a Commission should be established to investigate Trump Derangement Syndrome among Demorats in Congress and the Deep State. Those people clearly demonstrate an obsession with anything Trump related while neglecting their duties to serve the best interests of citizens of the US.
Scrutinize sounds like hidden cameras in use.
Tom quote the sticker on my truck –
Are you American
Or Democrat
Dems need to focus more on Trump, and less on irrelevant matters. This will ensure their victory.
I think that we missed that one …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bFBciFL3-gY