Area 45: A Healthy Amendment?

• History
• Contemporary
• US
• Law & Policy
• Politics, Institutions, and Public Opinion
• Campaigns & Elections
• The Presidency
• Civil Rights & Race

The 25^th Amendment to the US Constitution clarifies presidential succession in the event of death or resignation. What’s not so clear is prolonged incapacitation. John Yoo, a Hoover Institution fellow, and constitutional law professor, explains how that amendment, written in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, applies to President Trump’s current health crisis.