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For months now, Democratic lawmakers have been debating whether to launch impeachment proceedings

against US President Donald Trump.

But as many have noted, impeachment isn't the only way to remove a president in between

elections.

Another method is through the provisions contained in section 4 of the 25th amendment to the United States Constitution,

which provides in part that the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet may declare a finding that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office because of sickness or disability.

As noted by Michigan State University law professor Brian called however, there are many

misconceptions about how the 25th amendment works, and declaring a president unfit to govern

is not nearly as simple as it sometimes is made to appear in movies or TV shows.

In a new Oxford University press book entitled Unable, the law, politics, and limits of section 4 of the 25th amendment,

Professor cult clears up some of these misconceptions and provides hypothetical scenarios

that demonstrate how the amendment's provisions could

operate in a real crisis. I first met Brian in 1994 when even as a first-year

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