The storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters after weeks of efforts by the president to overturn the results of the 2020 election has ignited another round of outrage and plans to unseat or prosecute him. But what’s the best way to proceed? None of the possible courses of action are perfect.

Removal by the 25th Amendment? That’s probably the only way to have gotten the nuclear football out of President Donald Trump’s hands before the inauguration, unless he resigns, but it’s probably a dead letter now that Vice President Mike Pence has said he won’t invoke it.  Article 4, under which the vice president steps in for a president who is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” has never been invoked since its ratification in 1967 following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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