When President William Henry Harrison died in office in 1841, the Constitution was vague on the matter of succession, leading to a constitutional crisis. Before 1841, no president had died in office.

When a president isn’t just doing a bad job but isn’t doing the job at all, the Constitution gives us a plan. It’s called Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, and it’s the only legal mechanism that allows ...

Donald Trump’s administration is facing another round of calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office in the wake of his remarks to an unprecedented assembly of the nation’s ...

Due to an error by a member of the digital staff, an earlier version of this story improperly identified its author as Tom Abrahams. The article was written by ...