[Dean Falvy at Justia.com, and Andrew Prokop at Vox.com, have very helpful guides to section 4 of the 25th Amendment, and how it might be invoked here. [read post]

For those who are interested in a clear explanation of the various types of coups—especially the nuances that arise when a government commits a coup to stay in power—Dean Falvy’s July 23 Verdict column, in which he coined the term “selfie coup,” is by far the best that I have seen.But whatever one thinks about the Marquis of Queensberry rules of word choice in the midst of an attempted coup, the point is that this is an existential political crisis,… [read post]