> Could it be so? <
I highly doubt it. The 22nd Amendment does have some wording that can be twisted to give Trump (or Obama) a third term.
But the 12th Amendment says the requirements for VP are the same as those for president. So you are not eligible for the presidency, you are not eligible for the vice presidency.
Some folks argue that the somewhat vague 22nd overrides the explicit 12th. But nowhere in the 22nd does it say that the 12th is hereby modified.
zactly
stupid premise
Your right. Its quite simple. 12 Amendment still applies. But these people are crazy.
12th Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on June 15, 1804, changed the process for electing the president and vice president. It required electors to cast separate votes for the president and vice president, rather than voting for two candidates for president without distinction. This amendment was proposed to address issues that arose during the 1800 election, where the original system led to a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, necessitating a resolution by the House of Representatives.
Under the Twelfth Amendment, if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes for president, the House of Representatives chooses from the three candidates with the most votes, while the Senate chooses the vice president from the two candidates with the most votes for that office.
The amendment also specifies that electors cannot vote for both a president and vice president who are inhabitants of the same state as themselves, to prevent any one state from having undue influence.
This change helped to streamline the election process and prevent the kinds of political conflicts that had occurred in previous elections.
The Twelfth Amendment took effect for the 1804 presidential election and has governed all subsequent presidential elections.
The way to get around the 22nd, would be not Donald Trump running as VP, but the VP stepping down, as Spiro Agnew did, and Nixon picking Gerald Ford as his VP without requiring a new election. Vance then selects Trump as his VP to replace his original running mate who had stepped down. Could this even be challenged? Then Vance steps down, and Trump starts his third term.
Let's keep in mind that this is presented in chit chat.
I posted it for the entertainment of watching liberals heads reacting in panic, along with the never-Trumpers.
I seriously doubt that Trump would even want to run again.
I just found it interesting that this is even being discussed.
EXACTLY SO!
>>”But the 12th Amendment says the requirements for VP are the same as those for president. So you are not eligible for the presidency, you are not eligible for the vice presidency.”
Actually the wording is a little different than that, and as is often the case with legal language, what may appear to the casual observer to be a meaningless distinction may actually represent a substantive difference in meaning. The relevant passage of the 12th Amendment reads:
“But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
One could make a reasonable argument that the wording of the 22nd Amendment wouldn’t make Trump ineligible for the Vice Presidency because it doesn’t make him ineligible for the Presidency. It merely makes him ineligible to be ELECTED to the Presidency. In other words, he could ascend to the Presidency as long as it was through a legal method other than direct election to that office.
In Theory, Trump wouldn’t even have to run for the Vice-Presidency. He could be elected Speaker of the House and then have both the President and Vice President step down.