Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House
Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House
President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of somehow serving a third term in office.
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That will never happen, legally, anyway.
However
22nd amendment says:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. ...
So what they are gonna do is that:
They are gonna argue that presidents are not "elected" but appointed by the Electoral College, therefore the 22nd amendment doesn't apply and hereby null and void.
Or just use elect VP + accension to presidency loophole, and run a dead person as President, then trump as VP, since the placeholder name they put for president isn't alive, VP become president.
Or just cast placeholder names for presidency and VP, and use the Speaker role as acting president.
There are so many loopholes that doesn't require repealing 22nd amendment.
Sorry if I have no faith in the US democracy and law system after a literal felon who staged a coup got re elected, had his bestie pull a bunch of nazi salutes while he was busy pardoning literal violent criminals who did the coup, made everyone a woman AND started a system of snitching on your neighbor to get them removed for noncrimes.
And lets not forget people enforcing the law are now his cronies.
I mean, it’s gonna. Every worst case thing is happening all over the place. The constitution is only as good as the people upholding it.
The 1st is a stretch. To goes so far beyond the meaning and precedent that you might as well annul the whole constitution at that point.
The 2nd doesn't work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.
As for the speaker, maybe.
The 2nd doesn’t work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.
The 22nd amendment is worded in a way that could be interpreted as an eligibility to run for the presidency, not an eligibility to be the president. Theoretically, the supreme court step in and give their interpretation of it.
Read the document. It specifically calls out the VP for this. You can't be elected VP if you can't be elected president.
no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States
Which begs the question, is the 22nd amendment a requirement to be president or just a requirement to get elected as president.
The supreme court can decide.
(I know what the spirit of the law is, but
the letter of the law =/= the spirit of the law)
I think the speaker trick would actually work. Good luck with that though lmao