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Which will backfire spectacularly when Obama is re-elected.

I get the impulse and it would be amusing, but I have a feeling people are sick of "dynasty" Dem candidates for president (Hillary after her husband, Biden/Harris after each being VPs.) Feels like his legacy and appeal has kind of faded too. He was an exciting first-time candidate and good-enough incumbent, but third term?

Hillary sure, but they explicitly said Obama, not Clinton.

Nominating a VP as President isn’t dynastic, it’s been common practice for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vice_presidents_of_the...

You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.

Any number of emergent events may create an emergency preventing the congress from gathering. The congress are collaborators and the Supreme Court is compromised.

What makes you think Obama will be allowed to run?

If it were to happen, I fully expect the supreme court to contort itself for a bespoke ruling that only applies under the current set of circumstances, favoring a very specific candidate and no one else.

That would trigger a real civil war.

Trump was giddy at that Zelenskiy meeting a few months ago, when he heard elections were suspended in Ukraine due to the war. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvUBtdHw3g4 Said something like "So, if in 3.5 years, we are in a war... no more elections. Oh, that's good."

Reminder that the President's legal team argued that he could have his political rivals executed by SEAL Team 6 and the Supreme Court was like "yep!" and ruled in his favor.

> If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.

For instance if hundreds of people are rioting and breaking into the capitol building.

That's what they were trying to do on Jan 6.

If they do this approach they will surely say that the constitutional limit is two consecutive terms, and since Trump's two terms were non-consecutive, he's still eligible to run again.

If that happens then Trump doesn't get to stay president, the 20th amendment means his term ends regardless.

The 5th Amendment means everyone has the right to due process, but it means nothing if the government refuses to adhere to it.

We're currently seeing people being denied due process as a matter of federal policy all over the US.

Something about powerful people handing power down being common practice for centuries seems dynasty-like to me.

I was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning you got a Speaker of the House becoming president (if one exists), and if not, the Senate's president pro tempore.

Not entirely sure where you see murky and undefined situations...

The constitutional amendment that GOP have put forward specifically prohibits any president who previously served two consecutive terms. (they had already thought this through, it literally only allows Trump three terms)

  “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-res...

It's already happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663333

They already did, 9 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663333

They already thought of that. He won't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663333

They can't possibly believe that they'll get 37 states to ratify it in the next three years to make it all square and legal. Their only plausible path is some very tortured Supreme Court ruling.

Which would further delay any chance of a transition of power.

More and more it looks like that is what he wants.

Handing your own power down to yourself — as is the case when a VP wins the primary and presidency, or Obama running for a third term — is not a “dynasty”.

No, the approach will be to put Trump second on a ticket as vice president, and then have the top name on the ticket abdicate on day one.

The constitution says he can’t be elected president, but on an extremely pedantic reading, it doesn’t say he can’t be elected vice president.

Yeah, and who's going to force the issue? The minute someone kicks over a trashcan it'll be declared as the latest national emergency and the loyal forces of law and order will be told to terminate whiny radicals in sight. Would you have believed anyone who told you five years ago that there would be masked federal cops snatching people off the street in broad daylight by 2025?

It would trigger his removal.

How?