Pelosi Blasts GOP Lawmakers for Blocking Resolution Calling on Pence To Invoke the 25th Amendment

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is accusing her Republican colleagues of “enabling” President Donald Trump’s “unhinged, unstable and deranged acts of sedition.”

On Monday, House Democrats sought to unanimously pass a resolution to urge Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office through unanimous consent.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) introduced a unanimous consent request to take up the resolution.

The 25th Amendment lays out a process for the Cabinet and vice president to determine that the president is not fit to serve in office and temporarily remove him.

It gives the president a chance to challenge the move. However, Congress can remove him permanently if two-thirds of the members of both chambers vote in favor of the move.

Unanimous consent would have allowed House Democrats to pass the resolution. The procedure requires that another lawmaker does not object. However, Republicans blocked the resolution.