I think some valid truths about his or hers mental, physical status should be exposed to the general public.

The continued cover-ups just make it worse. The Representative recently was out for approximately 4 months and was kept a secret, and we still don't know the actual truth.

That's republicans. If it were a Democrat, all hell would have broke out from the so called Christians followed-up by corporate media.

Yes.

But only a few people in his inner circle would have to be in the know. An AI voice impersonation, good for a 20 min phone conversation in McTurtle voice, covering topics the Senator would have an opinion on, is very doable. Someone on the other end of the phone line, especially those motivated to not question whether it is Mitch or an AI, could be easily fooled.

My company already uses such AI assistants to handle routine questions from co-workers ( all such correspondence is identified as AI generated ). Doing so in phone calls using the voice of the person, would be an easy extension.

A non-AI version of this was depicted in the 1993 movie "Dave".

His Kentucky constituents? Sure.

To the rest of us, it shouldn’t matter one damned bit.

Dead or alive, he’s not voting, and that’s all that matters.

There is no law, or principle of law, that would give individual members of the public a legally enforceable right to demand such information.

State and federal laws concerning Senators were written for this exact situation.

They fall short as they don't require disclosure of cognitive abilities.

Most laws were written with the assumption that the family or staff of the Senator would disclose this information.

This is why I believe we need to update many of these laws.
They need to require reporting on congestive health of any government official that spends say more than a week hospitalized or under a doctors daily care.

Brain death IS death under the law

Must the public be informed? Well, mostly yes. Hiding a death from being reported is a felony in most states, that all sort of grows out of the publics interest in knowing a whether murder was committed.

You can't fail to report, and you can't sequester a corpse so it cannot be examined.

It's unclear to me if under that a Brain dead person deemed dead by that event is, de facto a corpse

Is he legally incapacitated? Yes, but who is going to go that route? Take the case of congresswoman Kay Granger who dissappeared for six months and was found in an assisted living facility.

I provided the citation in my posts yesterday.

If I get the name correct the law is The Uniform Determination of Death Act ,

MOreover most states consider brain death death, and Kansas was the first state to make that a state law in 1970

Perhaps unable to care for herself, but if you have a credible report of her being brain dead that would be useful

I don't believe brain dead is public record. As long as someone is in a healthcare facility, their records are private.

Also KY doesn't recognize the Uniform Determination of Death Act

Also states administer "deaths", not the federal govt.

Congresswoman from Texas. Nobody asked.

and is unlikely to be able to ever do so again, then it's fraud not to tell people and give them an opportunity to have an elected representative who can do the job.