Rahul Sharma's AP Govt Blog

If the vice president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries decide that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” they put that down in writing and send it to both the speaker of the House and the Senate’s president pro tem. I t takes 9 people to make the vice president the acting president: the vice president and eight cabinet members. If the president disagrees with the VP & cabinet , he can. If he/she does, it would be up to Congress to settle the matter with a vote. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be necessary to keep the vice president in charge. The chaos that followed John F. Kennedy’s assassination spurred Congress to quickly pass the 25th Amendment in 1965 and winning its ratification in the states by 1967. P rior to the 25th Amendment, the VP office was vacant. The original interpretation says you basically can't fill the VP vacancy. The first part of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is still open to interpret...

The Trump administration decide to end the Voter Fraud  Commission because of the   States’ resistance to the commission. The White House said that “many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry.”  Trump claims that  millions of people voting illegally had cost him the popular vote in the 2016 election. However, there is no evidence to back up his comments. The rate of voter fraud found by a Loyola Law School study was pretty much rare/nonexistent  - 35 total credible accusations between 2000 and 2014 out of  the 800 million ballots  cast in those 15 years.  That represents about 0.000003 alleged cases of fraud for every vote cast Another, more recent investigation  in North Carolina by the State Board of Elections similarly  found  just one — out of nearly 4.8 million total votes in 2016 — credible case of in-person voter fraud...