“No former president who has served two terms can run as VP.”
Completely false. No person who has served as President, by election or by succession, for more than 2192 days can be ELECTED to the office of President.
It would have been simple to draft the 22nd Amendment to say what you THINK it says, but that did not happen.
In the instant case, the 22nd Amendment bars the Electoral College from choosing Barack Obama (or Bill Clinton) for service as President. If the Electoral College chooses either of them to serve as Vice President, they are perfectly qualified (constitutionally) to ascend to the office of President, as long as it’s not the doing of the Electoral College.
Read the 22nd Amendment and show me where it says otherwise.
I think you’re right.
But the 12th amendment says that a person ineligible to be president is ineligible to be vice-president.
I believe also the 12th amendment reads that electors can’t vote for a president and vice presidential candidate who are both from the same state as themselves. In that case, New York’s electors couldn’t vote for both Bill and HIllary, even if Bill somehow could be elected vice president in spite of the 22nd amendment.
Unless, of course, Bill and Hillary gave up the fiction that they are one big happy family and set up separate residences in different states. The word I’ve heard is that Bill and HIllary have lived separate lives for many years.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States..
A person rendered ineligible by Amendment 22 for President is also rendered ineligible for VP by Amendment 12.
Not true. Consider the last line of the 12th Amendment. "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
This means more than just ineligible to be elected VP. It means that B-J Clinton, GW Bush, and BH 0bama may not SERVE as VP even if they could be elected to it. Interestingly GHW Bush WOULD be eligible to be VP.
Consider also Henry Kissinger. When he was Secretary of State he was not a part of the line of succession because he was ineligible to hold the office of President. He would also have been ineligible to replace Spiro Agnew.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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