to the editor: There appear to be only two ways to remove a president from office: impeachment and the 25th Amendment (“Democrats become bolder in talk of removing Trump from office after his Iran threats,” April 9). Neither is viable in today's United States.
If a president is successfully impeached in the House of Representatives (an extremely unlikely occurrence), the case is heard in a trial in the Senate. The only way to remove a president is for a majority of senators to vote “guilty.” In a Republican-controlled Senate, does anyone believe this is possible?
As for the 25th Amendment, it requires the vice president and the Cabinet to deem the president unfit for office. President Trump's Cabinet members may be inept and unqualified, but above all they are loyal. This Cabinet will never conclude that it is “no longer capable of doing the job.”
The only real chance of Trump being ousted from the Oval Office would be a Democratic takeover of both houses of Congress, and even then it would be an uphill climb.
Richard Shafarman, Santa Clarita
