If he runs as VP, he’s not getting elected to be the president, so no 22nd Amendment violation. If he later goes on to become president through succession rather than being directly elected to the office, no violation of the 22nd Amendment because, again, he was not elected to that office. He just assumed it after the president stepped down, was removed, or died.
I’m just the messenger folks. It seems clear that the 22nd Amendment was intended to prevent someone who already served two terms from serving again. But this may be a loophole. That’s what loopholes are. They exploit poorly written law in order to go against the law’s original intent.
The 12th amendment states: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Independent of the what it says regarding VP, the 22nd makes Obama inelegible to be President and the 12th then makes him ineligible to be Vice President.
he can’t run. He’s ineligible to be President. He couldn’t be chosen if the Dem got impeached by #metoo and his veep moved up and had to select a new veep with Congressional concurrence. We survived him, now it is hammer time.
If you are indicted for treason, I dont believe a loophole is going to make much difference.
Playing ketchup but needed to post this so it isn’t lost:
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3 May 2020 - 2:03:09 PM
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
Digest - know your rights.
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Cooupla things
One, this is the Code reference I have inserted all over FR since mid-March. Most responses are that it wasn’t relevant. Even some here on the Q-thread thought it melodramatic and hyperbole.
That isn’t the main thrust of my post (besides, I hurt my elbow...)
Recently, a District judge tossed suit by businesses suing Whitmer under this same statute. Judge said it didn’t apply to the complainants.
Why? Because the State has the inherent right to regulate all business within it’s borders. What the State can’t regulate is INDIVIDUAL civil rights. That is where the harm is.
In sum, they were doing it wrong! The statute protects INDIVIDUAL rights and therefore the complaint MUST come an individual.
Call the FBI and report a Federal felony in progress.
They exploit poorly written law in order to go against the law’s original intent.
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That’s why we need judges to go back to original intent, not the latest interpretation that a “progressive mind” will come up. The whole reason we have “birth citizenship” being applied to children of illegals, or those on a visitor’s visa.