New GOP bill would let Trump (but not Obama) run for a third term [another source]

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-gop-bill-let-trump-not-obama-run-third-term-rcna189099

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Not really. There’s no way this passes. The constitutional amendment process is too complicated even for broadly popular ideas to get through. Anything blatantly partisan like this is DOA.

There’s some other novel legal theories (read: dumb as shit, but our Supreme Court might let it through, anyway) on how Trump could bypass the constitutional term limits, but I doubt even those will work.

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Wasn’t there also something in the constitution about insurrection…? Yeah… I don’t think they care about it.

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The issue with that one was tangled up with “what is an insurrection, anyway?”. Most of the other presidential requirements have zero room for interpretation, including this one. States wouldn’t even put him on the ballot.

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I’m just waiting for the Supreme Court to declare part of the Constitution unconstitutional.

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Oh they already did.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

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Can’t they reverse tickets next time so he’s running mate to Vance, then on Jan 22 Vance falls out a window and Bobs your Uncle. Trump gets his third term but was only ever elected twice

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No. The 12th Amendment specifies that “… no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” If you already served two terms as President, you aren’t eligible to be Vice President.

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Yeah, I guess it’s the wrong order

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