Republican cites 25th amendment in bid to remove ‘too old’ Biden from office

A Colorado Republican introduced a congressional resolution calling for Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th amendment to the US constitution and remove Joe Biden because he is too old.

The resolution from the US House member Ken Buck has little chance of success.

John Dean, who was White House counsel under Richard Nixon, the president who resigned under pressure from his own party, said: “Just when you think there may be a few normal Republicans, you discover they are all crazy.

“This man [Buck] is leaving public office. He is the person with the cognitive problem not Joe Biden.”

Section four of the 25th amendment provides for the replacement, by the vice-president, of a president deemed incapable. It has never been used. Calls for its use intensified in 2021, after the deadly January 6 attack on Congress, which Donald Trump incited in an attempt to stay in the Oval Office.

Mike Pence, Trump’s vice-president, rejected a House resolution. Just one Republican, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, backed it.

Buck, 65, contends that Biden – at 81, only three and a half years older than Trump, his probable challenger for re-election – has become mentally incapable.

The vice-president, Buck’s resolution said, should “convene and mobilise the principal officers of the executive departments of the cabinet to activate section four of the 25th amendment to declare President Joseph R Biden incapable of executing the duties of his office”.

Biden, Buck’s resolution says, “has been televised wandering aimlessly at events … frequently speaks publicly in an incoherent and indiscernible manner [and] has repeatedly fallen while walking up stairs”.

Trump has been televised wandering aimlessly, speaking incoherently and struggling to maintain balance.

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