Professor John D. Feerick ’61 was interviewed by WNYC about the use of the 25th Amendment to remove a president from office.
But what the 25th Amendment’s drafters did not want was for it to be used as a political tool, says John Feerick, a Fordham Law School professor who helped draft the Amendment. Instead, they wanted to clarify gaps left behind by the Founding Fathers.
“The framers of the Constitution, back in 1787, didn’t give any explanation to what they meant by ‘inability,'” said Feerick.