Timeline for Doesn't the 22nd amendment prevent Donald Trump from running for president again in 2024?
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| Nov 17, 2020 at 15:52 | comment | added | cde | @joe constitutional scholars argue that qualification for presidents isn't the same as eligibility to be elected, and the ambiguity of the 22nd in not simply saying "ineligible to hold office" instead of elected changes that. | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 13:24 | comment | added | Joe W | @cde The 12th amendment which says the VP must be eligible to be president does combine with the 22nd to say that. " But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 5:45 | comment | added | cde | @Joe the 22nd does not in itself prevent a 2 term president from acting as or ascending from vice president to president. The 12th might, if read to assume that the 22nd applies to succession and not just election. Also, it says more than 2 years. So 2 years exactly would not count to disqualify them. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 0:53 | comment | added | phoog | @JJJ is right. Whatever the intention of the amendment may have been, what it actually says is that someone who's served more than two years of a term the which someone else is elected may only be elected once. It does not say that the ability to be elected is further restricted after succeeding to the presidency multiple times. There is absolutely nothing in the amendment about "serving two terms of more than two years." | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 17:43 | comment | added | Joe W | @JJJ I think the idea of the 22nd amendment is to limit someone to 8 years (if elected twice) or 10 years is they assume the office from someone else with 2 or fewer years left. And if a former two term president was to get in the presidential succession chain they would be skipped over as ineligible. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | JJJ♦ | Yea, there's a bit of discussion about that in Brythan's answer on the other question. It seems the amendment doesn't specify that because it only restricts who may be elected. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Joe W | @JJJ I don't think it is written to allow for someone to serve more than two terms in office if the person is assuming office from another person. As an example a person moving up from vice president to president three times. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | JJJ♦ | I don't think it reads that way. Even if they have served two times over two years as part of someone else's term, then they are allowed to be elected once. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:26 | history | edited | Joe W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:25 | comment | added | Joe W | @JJJ It does but I included it as well as the 22nd amendment to show that it has happened before. The main part of the answer is the 22nd amendment showing that it only cares about being elected twice or serving two terms of more than two years. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:14 | comment | added | JJJ♦ | I think the Cleveland presidency predates 22nd amendment. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 15:10 | history | answered | Joe W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |