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deadbabe | 3 days ago

Presidency can’t be extended by wars.

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jaegrqualm|3 days ago

FDR's tenure might have created an amendment to that effect, but it's not like this administration hasn't used a legal loophole before.

Perhaps there's a war, that a misguided congress won't declare as such, and a certain vice president that runs for president, with a certain someone as his vice president...

PontifexMinimus|3 days ago

Not constitutionally, at any rate.

SlightlyLeftPad|3 days ago

What would happen if he tried by not vacating at the end of his term, when challenged in court, shut down by his own Supreme Court? I mean let’s be real, all it really takes is him not giving up the white house. I sometimes wonder.

vlovich123|3 days ago

… not yet. The problem with a norm breaking presidency like Trump’s and the GOP power structure is that no norm is safe, including elections.

NullPrefix|3 days ago

Zelensky's presidency was supposed to end couple of years ago. Would it be different in USA?

Tostino|3 days ago

Different constitutions. Were you trying to muddy the waters, or are you just ignorant of the details?