At a very practical level what would happen after a declaration by Congress that 14AS3 applied? What would enforcement look like? I don't know law well, but it's hard for me to see the concrete steps of how you get from that declaration by Congress to someone else (presumably Vance?) being president

April 07, 2026 - 18:20 UTC

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As with anything else, it's a matter of holding out on "we're the one and only Congress of the United States, the constitutionally legitimate elected representatives of the sovereign people, and we say so."
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Interesting. Maybe a histrionic reaction, but it feels like this might quickly reduce down to the question of "who does the military side with".

Separately, one wonders if this runs into Presentment Clause issues.
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Well, what if they found out Trump was only 30 years old--the exact procedure might be tbd, but just because the procedure hadn't been formalized wouldn't give him a free pass to continue being president.
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Yeah, I'm not saying it's not possible! I'm just genuinely trying to conceptualize what step 2 is.

One of the most distressing things T has taught me is that so much of what I think of as "law" is really just convention, and as a result I think a lot more about mechanics of enforcement now.
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