Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar agrees that the two-term limit applies to any two terms by a single person, even if those terms are not back-to-back.
While it’s all but certain Trump allies can’t change the Constitution—modifying the 22nd Amendment—the president could try to use legal loopholes to stay in power.
President Donald Trump has already made history as both the first convicted felon president, as well as the second American president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms in office. Now, a Republican congressman is looking to extend Trump’s unusual presidency by proposing a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to run yet again.
Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve discussed, unilaterally deny citizenship to certain people born in the United States, against the clear direction of the Constitution.
Some people claim Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship will affect his own allies like Usha Vance and Marco Rubio. Here’s why that’s false.
In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The 47th president pressed the point during litigation over his eligibility for office after Jan. 6. He was sworn in again on Monday.
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
The lawsuit to block the president’s executive order is the first salvo in what is likely to be a long-running legal fight over immigration policy.
Donald Trump yesterday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution ... the first sentence of the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...
As a presidential candidate, Trump decried the Biden administration's lawfare against perceived political opponents, including parents at school board meetings, peaceful pro-life protestors, and those who adhere to "traditionalist Catholic ideology.