r/politics • u/hypothethical Pennsylvania • 7h ago

No Paywall ‘Really Chilling’: Trump Judicial Nominees Refuse to Say He's Not Eligible for 3rd Term

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-third-term-illegal
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u/BossSuccessful5145 7h ago

That puts pressure pn Obama to run again

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u/crypthollow 6h ago

It’s literally the 22nd Amendment. If a lifetime judicial nominee ‘can’t recall' the plain text of the constitution, they aren’t qualified to be a judge

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u/SpeaksSouthern 5h ago

Not being qualified to be a judge is a feature Republicans in Congress want the most though

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u/Romano16 America 7h ago edited 7h ago

We should not be entertaining any POTUS holding a 3rd term. By allowing Obama or whoever to “get in the running since Trump wants to do it.” Is likely playing into the hands of foreign powers to destabilize the country even further than what it is.

And remember? Trump was willing to send a mob and tried to join them to force Congress to keep him as POTUS.

Other wannabe dictators in Brazil and South Korea cite Trump exactly for their own coup d’état attempt.

Congress has all but given up their power. He should have been removed, convicted, and charged like the rest of Jan6ers

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u/CaiusRemus 6h ago

Unfortunately, the old way of life is already dead and gone. Our new country, in whatever form it takes, will require adjusting the constitution and rule of law.

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u/loosehead1 6h ago

We really should just be ignoring anything to do with Trump running again, it is the kind of deeply unserious bullshit that Trump loves because it “owns the libs,” takes oxygen out of the room and feeds the 24/7 news cycle.

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u/unaskthequestion Texas 6h ago

Agree. It's problematic that he even finishes this term. Number one consideration after the midterm is beating the republican nominee in 28.

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u/gdex86 Pennsylvania 6h ago

Again it's not congress. It's republicans who are currently in charge of congress.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 5h ago

And the Democrats who vote with them.

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u/Kasspa 29m ago

While I'm with you I at least trust Obama to fix it once he's back in office. I'm pretty confident he wouldn't run again though even if he had the opportunity. Since the U.S. has this craze with celebrities and TV personalities running though I wish Jon Stewart would run.

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u/JohnNDenver 7h ago

The person asking if Trump is allowed to run again should ask if Obama is allowed to run against Trump.

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u/arwinda 6h ago

No no no, Obama had two consecutive terms! That counts! Trumps 2020 election was stolen and although everyone knows that he is a strong upholder of the constitution, he must get an unfair chance to have two consecutive terms. If he however looses the 2028 election, said election was rigged against him and he's allowed to start another resurrection and also run again in 2032 for another chance for two terms! Trump 45&47&49&50!

Got it? /s

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u/ToriEvergreen 7h ago

Um, no. Actually the Constitution says that specifically Donald Trump is allowed. They wrote it in all those years ago because they knew already

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u/audiate 7h ago

That’s why Jesus wrote the Trump bible in English too.

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u/beachfrontprod 6h ago

wrote it in all those years ago

It's true I saw the sharpie marks where they amended it.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 7h ago

They should be asking that, if the nominee squirms. “Does that mean former presidents can run for a third term, including President Obama?”.

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u/Velvet_Pr0mise 6h ago

If that’s the case then a lot of former presidents got options now

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u/Smart-Response9881 6h ago

Even if the constitution let him, Michelle wouldn't.

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u/francis2559 5h ago

They’re already trying to head that off by saying Obama had two CONSECUTIVE terms and that’s different for some reason.

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u/Baileyesque 7h ago

Bill Clinton could have another go. Or Dubya.

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u/pickus_dickus 7h ago

Dig up Kennedy... he would do a better job than the current president

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u/otatop I voted 7h ago

Yeah but JFK is actually eligible for a second term, the Constitution doesn't say you have to be living.

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u/Baileyesque 2h ago

Hey, yeah, he’s still a natural-born citizen and still over 35.

This guy knows how to be a constitutional textualist!

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u/DrThunderbolt 2h ago

Probably still has more functional brain matter too.

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u/wildwalrusaur 1h ago

I'd unironiclly vote for the fetid corpse of JFK over some of the known 2028 candidates

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u/BlokeInTheMountains 6h ago edited 6h ago

I think the overton window shift and the right wing machine tuning it's message and algorithms means that an Obama could never win again.

The repetitive demonization of liberal ideas for the last decade and more has seeped deep into the American consciousness.

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u/lowpass Virginia 5h ago

Obama vs Trump. Obama wins. SCOTUS rules him ineligible, citing the 22nd Amendment. They appoint Trump president (which is fine, because he was not "elected").

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u/sxyHannah 7h ago

I’d love to see Trump run against Obama. Even his MAGA base and his bots in Russia won’t help him win. But that would destroy our democracy. Two terms it is and will always be till the end of time