Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles has proposed legislation that would amend the Constitution, allowing Donald Trump to run for a third presidential term. “I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment...
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Americans are just letting these guys touch them right in the constitution.

    It’s so wild after all those lies about freedom and the right choice.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      Not really. There’s no way this passes. The constitutional amendment process is too complicated even for broadly popular ideas to get through. Anything blatantly partisan like this is DOA.

      There’s some other novel legal theories (read: dumb as shit, but our Supreme Court might let it through, anyway) on how Trump could bypass the constitutional term limits, but I doubt even those will work.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        I’m just waiting for the Supreme Court to declare part of the Constitution unconstitutional.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Oh they already did.

          A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

      • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Wasn’t there also something in the constitution about insurrection…? Yeah… I don’t think they care about it.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          2 months ago

          The issue with that one was tangled up with “what is an insurrection, anyway?”. Most of the other presidential requirements have zero room for interpretation, including this one. States wouldn’t even put him on the ballot.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It would still have to get through the Senate and 38ish State Legislatures. This isn’t a serious thing.