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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 pm
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 3:52 pm
He wants a third term because two won't do enough damage
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 2:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 7:46 am)Nanny Wrote: Dear Leader wants a third term and is "not joking."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-t...not-joking
https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-t...7fe89b7578
Says Vance can run and then hand him the presidency just like Putin and Medvedev.
The Twelfth Amendment forbids anyone ineligible for the Presidency to assume the office of VP. Amendments to both 12th and 22nd Amendments would be required before a third term would be legal.
There's daylight between the two amendments as one bars being elected and the other speaks of ineligibility, which AFAIK is only defined in terms of age and citizenship.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 pm
I think even Trump’s pet SCOTUS would have a hard time siding with him on this one.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 4:55 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 2:42 pm)Nanny Wrote: I am assuming that Dear Leader will continue to ignore the Constitution.
Let him try. Violence will occur.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 4:31 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 2:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The Twelfth Amendment forbids anyone ineligible for the Presidency to assume the office of VP. Amendments to both 12th and 22nd Amendments would be required before a third term would be legal.
There's daylight between the two amendments as one bars being elected and the other speaks of ineligibility, which AFAIK is only defined in terms of age and citizenship.
That daylight is nominal at best. IANAL, but if he cannot run for President due to term limits, he cannot run for VP, as if he did accede to the Presidency he would automatically violate 22A.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 5:13 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 4:31 pm)Angrboda Wrote: There's daylight between the two amendments as one bars being elected and the other speaks of ineligibility, which AFAIK is only defined in terms of age and citizenship.
That daylight is nominal at best. IANAL, but if he cannot run for President due to term limits, he cannot run for VP, as if he did accede to the Presidency he would automatically violate 22A.
We are talking Trump lawyers, are we not?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 5:13 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That daylight is nominal at best. IANAL, but if he cannot run for President due to term limits, he cannot run for VP, as if he did accede to the Presidency he would automatically violate 22A.
We are talking Trump lawyers, are we not?
Who have a well-established track record of losing in court when it comes to election law.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 6:21 pm
(March 31, 2025 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 5:13 pm)Angrboda Wrote: We are talking Trump lawyers, are we not?
Who have a well-established track record of losing in court when it comes to election law.
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Yes, and we also have an activist Supreme Court and plenty of timid appellate judges.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
March 31, 2025 at 6:32 pm
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(March 31, 2025 at 6:21 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (March 31, 2025 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Who have a well-established track record of losing in court when it comes to election law.
Boru
Yes, and we also have an activist Supreme Court and plenty of timid appellate judges.
These are same courts who rejected 97% of his ‘stop the steal’ arguments. Add in the fact Coney Barrett is beginning to grow something resembling a spine, I don’t fancy his chances.
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