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Courtney Silverthorn's avatar

Not a constitutional scholar, but isn't there a much easier way for Trump to stay in office beyond 2028 without DOJ intervention etc? 22nd amendment reads "No person shall be *elected* to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be *elected* to the office of the President more than once." It seems like there would be a plausible scenario where, say, Don Jr runs in 2028 with Dad as his VP, and then resigns the day after the inauguration?

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Craig Butcher's avatar

Damn, you are a born MAGA legal apparatchik! Barring a Hamburger of Deliverance, we can definitely expect DJT to declare himself a continuance in office in 2028 due to (emergency, failure of election, the fact that half of Congress has disappeared after being detained for questioning)... and the argument will certainly be that no one else having won the election, he is eligible to stay put.

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Courtney Silverthorn's avatar

Not sure if that's a compliment or not but my blue liberal heart will accept it as one 😂 It seems like they wouldn't even have to be surreptitious about it, DJTJ's platform could be "elect me so I can resign and make my dad president again" and MAGA World would fall all over themselves to make it happen.

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Courtney Silverthorn's avatar

This smarter person seems to think this is entirely plausible: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/

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