Washington – At a special meeting at a global summit in Buenos Aires in 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping turned into President Trump and said that it was a shame that he could not stay in power outside the limit set by the United States constitution. Trump agreed.
It was just one of the many cases that Trump thought about the ruling outside the constitution in the White House.
“He spoke about it for a long time,” said John Bolton, National Security Adviser in Trump from 2018 to 2019. “He is on his mind, and he would like to do so.”
Trump’s possibility of a third term nominated new attention this weekend after President NBC told that he “is not joking” about one follow -up.
“There are ways,” Trump said. “But I am not – it is too early to think about it.”
Lawyers, scholars and state officials do not agree. Knowledge that Trump may ask to remain in power, in a direct challenge of the twenty -second amendment, already has election officials in state offices in all parts of the country preparing for legal battles that can start as soon as possible in the next year.
The simple language of the amendment, which states that “no one may be elected to the president’s office more than twice”, will also work on the local races that start next year for state secretaries throughout the country – the main offices that will determine or explain the voting qualifications, which are inevitable about Trump’s eligibility from the courts.
It will not happen
– Alan Dershitz, the constitutional professor, during the third period of Trump.
“It is certain that individual states and federal courts will move to keep him away from the polling,” said Alex Connant, former communications director of the 2016 Marco Rubio campaign and a founding firefighter partner. He added, “It could be the case.”
Some former lawyers in Trump doubt that the president has a road to a third state, in the absence of the hard constitutional amendment and a long -time challenge and takes a long time. The amendment must be approved by three quarters of the states (38 out of 50).
Pam Bondi, the President’s Prosecutor, told Senate members in her assertion session that Trump could not serve a third term “unless they change the constitution.”
“This cannot happen in the absence of a constitutional amendment, which cannot be aged at the appropriate time,” said Alan Dershitz, a constitutional professor for a long time at Harvard University and Trump’s lawyer during his isolation trial in the Senate. “This will not happen.”
However, in the state of Arizona, where Trump and his allies tried to break the election results in 2020 to stay in power, discussions are already on the logistical paths that Trump might take to secure access to the polling there. As in many other states, the Arizona process depends on accepting the candidates on the initial ballot cards depending on the internal decisions of political parties.
How can Republicans, who frequented Trump’s challenge, oppose such an effort?
“No, the first line of defense is the Republican Party that stands for the constitution and says:” No, you are unconstitutional, so we will not put you as a candidate. “
“But on the assumption that this fails, and the Republican Party nominates Trump for a third term, they will try to submit his name and presidential candidate, and their presidential voters in Arizona, to the Foreign Minister’s office to qualify the polling. This will be the office to assess the legal foundations to reject them in polling.”
The term foreign minister in Arizona, the current democratic, ends in 2027.
Looking at the opportunity, five adult administration officials inside the internal circle of Trump, whom the Times contacted to exclude an effort by Trump to stay in office. The White House referred a statement issued by the press secretary of President Caroline Levitte to reporters on Monday saying: “It is not something that we really think.”
Bolton, who moved from Trump loyal to Trump’s fierce critic, says otherwise.
“People need to think about it,” Bolton added. “Trump’s thinking about it, you can guarantee it.”
Mysterious “methods”
Trump made his previous bids historically, and announced the first on January 20, 2017 – the first day of its opening – and the second in November 2022, just one week after the renewal elections that year. This time, Trump’s supporters began to call for another operation within weeks to take office.
Trump was excluded from a straw poll from 2028 candidates at the conservative political work conference for this year. But the “Trump 2028” material is still the event, as it attracted voice support from prominent party characters, including Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.
Stephen K. said. Bannon, a former White House strategic expert in Trump during his first term, last month, is conservative lawyer Mike Davis and others who put Trump’s strategies to stay in office, warns that the Democrats will try to imprison the president if he abandons power.
“We are working on this – I think we will have two alternatives,” Bannon told NewSnation. “We’ll see what is the definition of the duration.”
Experts said the legal challenges may come fast and early.
“Can he ask for money legally for something that is not qualified to run for it? This may be the first place where someone will get to prosecute,” said Andrew Rodalifig, a government professor at Budwin College.
The “methods” and “alternatives” referred to by Trump and Bannon are not clear. But Trump acknowledged one idea that revolves around his supporters: running for the presidency of the deputy presidency, then the elected president resigned or allowing Trump to manage the government effectively.
This plan will face multiple obstacles, which requires Trump to trust someone enough to win the presidency and give up power with him.
It will also raise questions about the twelfth amendment, which states that “no person is unconstitutional for the president’s office qualified for the Vice President.”
“It is just a dry cut – he is not qualified,” said Richard Pinter, a former White House ethical leader during the George W. Bush administration.
“I think you can go to the Federal Court to obtain a judicial order, and I think the Supreme Court may have just a judicial order against it,” Pinter added.
President Franklin de Roosevelt, speaking at the White House in 1944, destroyed a tradition created by George Washington when he nominated for the third and fourth semester.
(Henry Buroz / Associated Press)
One former former president, Franklin Dylano Roosevelt, nominated, and he won more than two periods in his position, broken traditions that began to appear.
“The criterion created by George Washington was that the president would only serve two periods, then Roosevelt decided not to do so,” said Peter Castor, head of the Washington University History Department in Saint -Louis. “After the death of FDR, before the end of its fourth term, a variety of people met and concluded that they needed to write the idea of the presidency for a period.”
Now, with the 2nd amendment in force, the legal question and election officials ask whether the law is clear, but whether Trump will follow it.
“I don’t think I really heard a serious discussion between serious people – there are definitely reflections about it between the conservatives, but not necessarily conservative lawyers,” said Curt Levy, Chairman of the Conservative Committee for Justice.
Levy added: “There is no doubt that the administration is firmly and that it means testing the borders of the executive.” “But I think it is very unlikely to order Republican officials, in many states, to challenge court orders – and even if he commanded them, it does not mean that they will comply.”
Trump will be 82 years old at the end of his current term, and he was older than President Biden when he was nominated for his re -election against Trump last year.