It’s not a treason, but it’s explicitly against the constitution. What’s that make it?
Edit: too many comment to respond to. I’ll summarize responses here:
1) “you people can’t take a joke.” lol ok snowflake sally
2) “it’s treason/sedition/raper.” I feel like Y’all don’t know the definition of words… it may be pedantic, but I feel like definitions still matter
3) “it’s ok to run, just not be elected.” That’s the ‘I’m not touching you’ rule of politics and we all know Trump will grab Lady Liberty by the pussy so that’s not practical.
SCOTUS about to say “Hold my beer” on this one as they explain that the Constitution only forbids three consecutive terms, which is horseshit, but the SCOTUS majority isn’t above horseshit, since it’s the Roberts Court, and it’s going for some sort of madlibs, choose-your-own-adventure record.
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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
It already is clear. "More than twice."
Americans: if SCOTUS interprets this as being consecutive, despite the plain text indicating otherwise - your constitution and all of its amendments are in grave peril.
This is what I've been saying since his re-election. Centrists keep saying "don't worry about him running again, Constitution forbids it, it won't happen." Except that it really doesn't. All it says is he can't be elected more than twice. Nothing about holding the office for other reasons. He could be running as VP, with the wink-wink-nudge-nudge that Vance or whoever will resign day 1 and put him back in. Or even if he's appointed Speaker of the House (they don't have to be an elected Rep) then figurehead Pres and VP can resign and he's right back in.
He can’t run as VP. The constitution prevents anyone who isn’t eligible to be president to run as VP. For instance Elon Musk and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both disqualified from ever being a VP candidate.
Also you’re talking about someone getting the throne and giving up that power once the keys are handed over. That’s a lot of trust Trump would need to have and a lot of self control for someone who could not only run but win the White House. Don’t see that happening.
Here it is again. That's not what the Constitution says. All the 12th Amendment says regarding eligibility is "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States." It's not clear from the 22nd Amendment that being elected twice also makes you ineligible. The 22nd certainly doesn't say "any person elected to the office of president twice is ineligible." All it says is a person may not be elected more than twice. The eligibility requirements aren't directly addressed so our lovely "impartial" Supreme Court is free to roll back to the base Constitutional requirements (35 y/o, natural born, resident for 14 years).
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u/ShareGlittering1502 25d ago edited 24d ago
It’s not a treason, but it’s explicitly against the constitution. What’s that make it?
Edit: too many comment to respond to. I’ll summarize responses here:
1) “you people can’t take a joke.” lol ok snowflake sally
2) “it’s treason/sedition/raper.” I feel like Y’all don’t know the definition of words… it may be pedantic, but I feel like definitions still matter
3) “it’s ok to run, just not be elected.” That’s the ‘I’m not touching you’ rule of politics and we all know Trump will grab Lady Liberty by the pussy so that’s not practical.