Can Hillary choose Bill as her running mate?
I know that sounds horrid but I am curious?
Scary thought, isn’t it? Would probably be an unwise political move since it would definately narrow their voter appeal and would remind people of their dual Presidency which people certainally didn’t know they were getting.
I will always remember them as the Rapist and the Enabler.
no.
No, because he is ineligible to be serve as President is also ineligible to serve as Vice President.
Yes.
She can’t choose Bill Clinton. His is ineligible to become president in the event she passes away or is removed from office. This is defined in Amendment 12 at the bottom.
I know that sounds horrid but I am curious?
1. 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 that two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.It would clearly violate the spirit of the Twenty Second Amendment, but it would IMHO unfortunately not violate the letter of it. And as to the president and vice president coming from the same state, that derives from the Twelfth Amendment's disincentive which says that no elector in the electoral college can vote for two candidates of POTUS/VPOTUS from his own state. But Dick Cheney showed how easy that would be to sidestep - he just registered to vote in WY where he had a summer home, and viola! Instant non-Texan.2. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
And it definitely appeared in 2000 that Bill could have won a third term had he been allowed by the Constitution.
However, I don't think it would work for the practical reason that it would explicitly make Bill's maladministration fair game - and the economic performance of the GW Bush Administration will so readily bear comparison with the "wonderful" Clinton Administration that I question whether Bill would not sink the ticket rather than lifting it over the top. Finally, there are all those last-minute pardons (which would not have been done by someone who planned ever to run for reelection) to defend . . .