Can Donald Trump serve a third term as U.S. president?
From bnnbloomberg.ca
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday declined to dismiss speculation that he would seek a third term and said he hadn’t considered whether he would go to court to contest the U.S. Constitution’s two-term limit for presidents. Here is a look at the legal barriers Trump faces. What does the constitution say? The 22nd Amendment states in part: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” The amendment was ratified in 1951 after former U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with a self-imposed two-term limit set by presidents since George Washington, the nation’s first. Roosevelt, a ...
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