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You're right it'll never happen. Otoh, with a creature of Clinton's character with his demonstrated disdain for the Constitution, he's not likely to let the 22nd Amendment stand in his way any more than he let his oath of office stand in his way. Its possible enough people might buy his semantic hairsplitting to give him another crack at the White House. We've seen them buy it before.

with a creature of Clinton's character with his demonstrated disdain for the Constitution, he's not likely to let the 22nd Amendment stand in his way
Can't argue about that.
But think about the number of courtroom victories sustained by the Clinton WH.

I think the number approached zero, on more than two dozen issues.

More to the point, Clinton would need a genuine victory on a genuine Constitutional issue.

Not some PR victory on the basis of the spin and BS opporunties it would engender. This one would need to be real and substantive.

And again, on the merits of law and substance, the Clinton WH persistently had a pathetic record of convincing any court in any juridiction of its arguments. The same would be true in this case. Bill Clinton is not going to "refine" the 22d Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (unless he refines the notion that former Presidents cannot run again for VP by using linguistic ambiguities within the United States Constitution).

I don't expect Bill Clinton's dismal litigation record to improve, and I also expect that the reaction to such an attempt would be far more vocal than during Al Gore's attempt to hijack the Constitution.