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Can a crazy president be removed from office? [View all]
From Cecil Adam's column, The Straight Dope:
Dear Cecil:
How crazy must the President of the United States be before it's considered cool to refuse an order? If the president orders an all-out nuclear attack on Canada, is the proper response "Yes, Mr. President,” or to throw the lunatic in a cell?
Dear Cecil:
What does it take to remove a sitting president who is obviously mentally ill? I don't think I need to say any more than that.
Cecil replies:
I’m starting to see a pattern to the questions I’ve been receiving lately: it’s almost as though, for some reason, readers have suddenly become preoccupied with the notion of a president being psychologically unfit to serve. The good news is that a president’s civilian and military underlings can certainly refuse to carry out illegal orders, and we likely have a constitutional procedure in place for removing a chief executive who’s no longer quite all there. The bad news? None of it's likely to help much.
How crazy must the President of the United States be before it's considered cool to refuse an order? If the president orders an all-out nuclear attack on Canada, is the proper response "Yes, Mr. President,” or to throw the lunatic in a cell?
Dear Cecil:
What does it take to remove a sitting president who is obviously mentally ill? I don't think I need to say any more than that.
Cecil replies:
I’m starting to see a pattern to the questions I’ve been receiving lately: it’s almost as though, for some reason, readers have suddenly become preoccupied with the notion of a president being psychologically unfit to serve. The good news is that a president’s civilian and military underlings can certainly refuse to carry out illegal orders, and we likely have a constitutional procedure in place for removing a chief executive who’s no longer quite all there. The bad news? None of it's likely to help much.
The rest at:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3338/can-a-crazy-president-be-removed-from-office?utm_campaign=1781882_The Straight Dope%3A 04%2F28%2F2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ChicagoReader&dm_i=2JCR,126WQ,2KTJUC,35QUX,1
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