Have presidents grown too powerful to be removed from office?

CNN 's Jake Tapper opined that the cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline is a scandal "maybe worse than Watergate " Julian Zelizer : The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ramped up its efforts to answer these questions.

He says key players propped up a semiconscious figurehead, hoping to gaslight their way to reelection, isn't just a scandal—it's a constitutional failure.

The 25th Amendment provides two ways the vice president can get the keys from a nonfunctioning president.

Zelizer says it's not as if nothing gets done while he's checked out.

Frida Ghitis: In last five years , we've pressure-tested both failsafe mechanisms.

She says we've never been able to eject a sitting president via impeachment process.

Ghitis says the bar for removal is too high for Section 4 of the 25th Amendment , which requires a supermajority of both houses.

Making the presidency safe for democracy will require a reform effort on the scale of post-Watergate Congresses , Ghitis writes.