Posted on 08/02/2018 3:45:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble
The XXII Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, "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."
Notice what this Amendment prohibits: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President". It says it twice.
Notice also what the Amendment does not say: "Any person having served blah, blah, blah shall be ineligible to the office of the President".
If the Democrats take the House and elect Obama as Speaker, and then manage to remove the President and Vice President (by whatever means), would Obama's succession to the Presidency happen by him "being elected to the office?"
I don't think so.
The Amendment only prohibits a third term that happens as a result of an election (which, BTW, is not in the Constitution to begin with).
Try it....just f’ing try it....
Exactly
He’ll always be a Spinchter of the Horse.
These issues have been debated previously, elsewhere. Opinions differ. VP discussion too.
See “interactions with twelfth ...”
I’m slow on the response
As the article said, it will remain unanswered until the situation arises.
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