Absent without Leave: Donald Trump, January 6, and the New Limits of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

• In Event: Understanding the Trump Presidency

Brief Overview

This paper addresses if the events of January 6, 2021 presented novel limits of applying Twenty-Fifth Amendment, particularly Section 4. The preliminary findings suggest its invocation might have proved impossible in an era of political polarization.

Author

• Maciej Turek, Jagiellonian University Krakow Poland