04.10.2017 - 13:31 [ David Ignatius / Washington Post ]

Our best hope against nuclear war

Well, there’s a remedy for that in our Constitution. The 25th Amendment provides that the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet officers can inform Congress that the president is unable “to discharge the powers and duties” of his office. The vice president would take over, unless more than a third of the House and Senate backed the president.

But mind you, this is all hypothetical.