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Wookiee Monster's avatar

If the Supreme Court rules that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to Trump, what’s to stop them doing to the same with the 22nd amendment? That’s the danger of when we just start ignoring sections of the Constitution just because they’re inconvenient or we’re afraid his supporters will turn violent again.

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Here’s how TFG (or anyone else) can get around the 22nd amendment: The amendment states that no one shall be “ELECTED to the office of the President more than twice” (my emphasis). That means that a President, having served two full terms based on his own election, could run as Vice President with someone else, and then that person could resign at slightly after noon on January 20, leaving the previous President to serve as President again.

Now, the rest of that clause states that having “held the office of President…for more than two years of [another’s] term”, our hypothetical president could then not be “elected” again. Note that the amendment uses the word “elected“ once more, not “serve” or “hold the office”. So, I would aver, there’s nothing Constitutionally preventing our hypothetical President-for-life from pulling this “run as Vice President” malarkey more than once. I’m sure this makes us all feel better. 🤔😉😊

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