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Can a two-term US president secure a third term by running as Vice President?

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/37261/legally-speaking-in-the-united-states-could-a-former-two-term-president-be-vice
3•nomilk•2h ago

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duxup•2h ago
Our current SCOTUS majority would probably respond:

"Well I dunno, even if it's wrong, let's let it go indefinitely while it winds its way through the courts ... especially if it enables our guy ..."

nomilk•2h ago
tl;dr From the 12th Amendment:

> No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27#toc-...

verdverm•1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
keernan•2h ago
From a constitutional perspective, I find a different question much more interesting:

What method does the Constitution provide to handle a situation when a sitting President, with the support of the DOJ and FBI, refuses to leave after his term has expired?

Or a sitting President who is impeached by the House and Convicted by the Senate, but who, with the full backing of the DOJ and FBI, refuses to step aside?