Advocates push Congress to create 25th Amendment commission
newsMay 2, 202611425
Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced legislation to create an independent federal commission to assess a president's fitness under the 25th Amendment. Advocacy groups and organizers are urging constituents to press Congress to pass the bill, circulating contact campaigns and selling 25th Amendment shirts with proceeds designated for the NAACP and the ACLU. Backers say the commission would establish a formal, nonpartisan mechanism to evaluate presidential mental or physical incapacity and close procedural gaps in invoking the 25th Amendment, citing concerns about President Donald Trump's fitness as the immediate impetus.
