the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.
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Laurence H. Tribe
Anyone discounting a 3d Trump term per the 22d am + the 12th am is thinking magically: The 22d dsn’t bar *serving* a 3d term, only being *elected* 3 times. The 12th dsn’t bar running for VP unless “ineligible” to serve as Pres, but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED!
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particularly given scotus is occupied by 5-6 people who believe jesus's status as a refugee isn't relevant to christianity, but abortion is.
Also not 100% sure they’re appropriate for amendments - con law was always my worst subject. So take all this with a grain of salt.
I’m down to be hopeful about it.
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https://www.whitehousetransitionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Terms-Tenure_101909-1.pdf
https://youtu.be/oN2_NarcM8c
“Did you ever go to school, stupid?”
“Yes sir, and I came out the same way.”
Feels like the John Yoo torture memo was a kind of inflection point, where American conservatives decided they could rationalise away human rights.
He could take it all the way up to the Supreme Court, which by that time could have 5 of his appointees serving on it, and just bank on them doing him another solid.
It's entirely predictable that he will seek to stay in power.
it is a word game for Conservatives
It's always possible to interpret a given set of words to mean its opposite, given enough time and motivation.
Absolutely. FDR called it. That's too much power for a president in a Republic. FDR knew what someone like Trump would do with that kind of power.
Like to torture it all so you end up saying im eligible to serve but ineligible to be elected is like saying if you commit suicide, ill arrest you
Its gobbledygook
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But, hey. America.
Tribe lending his credibility to this complete nonsense does not make us any more aware of the threat, it only makes the threat more dangerous.
You think he’ll just decline to run again because he respects the history of the 22nd Amendment?
The 1st Amend ensured separation of church and state yet our currency has “in god we trust” on it.
2nd Amend is about states being allowed to keep an armed military.
When R’s in power, it expands executive powers because of the Air Bud Principle: not explicitly outlawed
This is a distraction from Signalgate and the failing economy, and his losses in the courts.
They do not care about a rule of law that applies equally to us all, they want to rule by law.
It needs a better system of checks and balances.
(See appendix 12)
https://substack.com/@deanmathiews/note/c-104924451?r=2p7rdj&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
We gotta get out of the weeds. I don’t know what the answer is, but we can’t keep focusing on the grenades being thrown.
Why have these constitutional scholars not been spending their careers sounding the alarm about the utter fragility of our constitution and amendments ?
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I believe it was.
“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.”
2025 America:
He was an ass. Glad he is gone.
It's a horrible circumstance, created by voters who didn't give a damn or are aligned with Trump.
My guess is that suggestion than gives credence to replace judges wholesale.
This third term bullshit is distraction and deflection, likely from the failing on so many fronts. Who cares?
Let’s all focus on limiting the damage and on ‘26
Unbelievable. More efforts to distract from Signalgate.
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Trump understands one rule. "Might is Right".
I think the larger question is viability of relying on adherence “the rule of law” at this point - and what we do in light of that.
Now they want to change it to force never ending orange incompetence down our throats.
What I'd bring up is this: Trump suggested Vance, if he won, could pass the presidency back like a baton. But why would Vance do that? Why wouldn't he just keep it like a Machiavellian, stingy child?
This talk about passing batons to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, IMO, is distraction from his actual autocratic desire.
Personally, I think Trump floated this story to turn the news cycle away from the Signal scandal. I feel this is water cooler talk, tbh. 🤷🏾
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Copyright infringement is protected speech under the first amendment. So is espionage.
Prisoners of war have the second amendment to keep and bear arms so can't be disarmed when they surrender.
This isn’t air bud.
It's an interpretative approach that was barely acceptable when the stakes are an online discussion about a hypothetical action in a make-believe game.
2) Trump gets appointed speaker of the house
3) Pres and VP resign
4) Trump is president for a third term
I hate to say it but I'm not sure the 22nd amendment prevents this.
Fuck, I hate living in the dumbest timeline.