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@abbytencat @OccupyDemocrats @Mycatsarerocks Nothing limits the Presidency to 2 terms. What's limited is being elected to the Presidency 3 times. There are other ways to gain the Presidency besides being elected. Just ask Gerald Ford or read the 25th Amendment.

@OccupyDemocrats @Mycatsarerocks Anyone who can't say POTUS is allowed to hold the office for only 2 terms, shouldn't have passed high school govt class, and absolutely should NOT be appointed to SCOTUS. Anyone approving of their nomination should be disqualified, because they've broken their oath of office.

BREAKING: SOUNDS OF SILENCE — Senate hearing goes deadly quiet as Trump’s federal judicial nominees REFUSE to admit third term is illegal. . Donald Trump is nominating people to lifetime federal judgeships who won't confirm that he can't run for a third term when they come before the Senate for their approval hearings. Let that sink in. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked what should be the easiest constitutional law question in American history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. He asked Trump's judicial nominees about the 22nd Amendment. The first nominee, John Marck, said that his career had been in criminal prosecution and that he hadn't had occasion to use that particular amendment. A federal judicial nominee. Unfamiliar with the 22nd Amendment. Seeking a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution. Another candidate eventually offered that it "deals with the two-term limitation." Correct. Gold star. Coons then asked the simple follow-up: is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028? Marck's response was a masterpiece of evasion: "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical." Coons was patient. He walked Marck through it like a kindergarten teacher explaining why you can't eat paste. Has Trump been elected president twice? "President Trump has been certified the President of the United States two times." Is he eligible to run for a third term? "I would have to review the actual wording of it." A man seeking a lifetime federal judgeship needs to review the actual wording. Of the 22nd Amendment. Which is 61 words long. Coons then turned to the full panel and asked if anyone — anyone — was willing to simply state that the Constitution of the United States bars Trump from seeking a third term. A heartbreakingly long silence ensued. He asked again. Anyone willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language? More ominous silence. Nobody. Not one of Trump's judicial nominees would say out loud, under oath, in a Senate hearing, that the 22nd Amendment means what it plainly says. This isn't ignorance. These are lawyers. They know what the 22nd Amendment says. They know Trump has been talking openly about a third term. And they calculated — correctly, based on what happens to people who cross this president — that telling the constitutional truth was more dangerous than staying silent. The frightening thing is that these are the people who will be interpreting your rights for the next 30 years. Please like and share this post if you think federal judges should be willing to say the Constitution means what it says — even when the president doesn't want to hear it.

@OccupyDemocrats 3rd term isn't illegal. Being elected a 3rd time is illegal. There are other methods to gain the office of the Presidency other than being elected. Just ask Gerald Ford or read the 25th amendment

@NickBryantNY If Obama were selected as Speaker of the House and Trump and Vance stepped down, Obama would (after resigning as speaker) -be- the President of the US. He is eligible, as the 22 only prevents him being -elected- a 3rd time.

@Avigdore That’s where the 12th amendment kicks in which reinforces the 22nd amendment.

This is really chilling. Like a scene from a dystopian movie, and alarming for anyone who cares about democracy. A judicial nominee flagrantly flouting the constitution about Trump's eligibility for a third term. The constitution is unambiguous. He is not eligible.

@NickBryantNY The 12th doesn't prevent a 3rd term either. It only prevents people constitutionally ineligible from being president at all from assuming the position such as under 35 years of age or not a natural born US citizen.

@SenatorDurbin 'Reportedly said'? GTFO of here. Reported by whom? When? Where? Any evidence at all, whatsoever?

When discussing a bill that would tackle housing affordability, Trump reportedly said, “no one gives a [bleep] about housing,” insisting Republicans should pass his voter disenfranchisement bill, the SAVE America Act, instead. This Admin would rather undermine democracy than lower costs for families.

@allenanalysis The 22nd does not limit a President to 2 terms. The 22nd says that you can't be elected to the position more than twice. There are other ways to obtain the office of President, just ask Gerald Ford.

Trump just said: “When I get out of office in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now…” His current term ends in 2029. Eight or nine years from now is 2033 or 2034. The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms. His own judicial nominees refused to confirm that on camera this week. He’s not hiding it anymore. Never stop connecting the dots.

@LastGovWatch @jasonwhitlock Now they're equal to the rest of us?

@jasonwhitlock Black communities lost the only law that protected their ability to elect people from their community for seats in Congress.

We lost our voting rights?

@LondonRiverSFW Which is why the gerrymandering in Virginia is still pending litigation.

Hey “constitutional conservatives,” state constitutions are binding, just like the federal constitution is. They aren’t a wish list or a suggestion box.

@RonFilipkowski His batting average on this would put him in the hall of fame, for sure.

Trump has called the following people “Low IQ” in Truth Social posts over the past 12 months: Hakeem Jeffries Candace Owens Gavin Newsom Ketanji Brown-Jackson Jasmine Crockett Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib Tim Walz Kamala Harris AOC Letitia James Robert DeNiro Joy Reid Al Sharpton Marge Greene Brandon Johnson Liz Cheney Donna Brazile

@picasoblac @allenanalysis That's amazingly mature for this place. I really appreciate it. Hope you're having a great day.

@Avigdore @allenanalysis I stand corrected 🤝🏾

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term? Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…” Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term. Silence. Every single one of them refused to say it. Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face. Never stop connecting the dots.

@picasoblac @allenanalysis Response seen. Amendments read. You remain mistaken.

@Avigdore @allenanalysis No sir type your hypothetically in any any AI see the response and then read the amendments

@picasoblac @allenanalysis You're mistaken.

@Avigdore @allenanalysis Your hypothetical his false by way of the 12th amendment

@SarahIronside6 The point of Star Wars is that 'Noone is beyond redemption'. Do you think that -everyone- is redeemable?

So many magas either never saw Star Wars or just missed the point of the movies entirely.

@TheTNHoller @ChrisCoons He can seek a 3rd term. He can't be elected to the Office of the President. If Obama ran for the House of Representatives and chosen as Speaker of the House and the President and VP stepped down, then Obama would be in his 3rd term as President. In accordance with the Const.

SEN. @ChrisCoons: “Anybody else brave enough to say the Constitution prevents President Trump from seeking a 3rd term?” TRUMP JUDGE NOMINEES: 🦗 🦗 Yikes.

@chemimommy Redistricting does not disenfranchise anyone at all.

Killer Mike’s bff is about to disenfranchise Black people

@RealDianeYap Men lose access to their children and have to fund their ex-wives. Men's lives aren't harder due to losing what the wife provided, it's harder because they now have to pay for 2 households. What's to celebrate in that? I imagine I would be happier with someone funding my life.

Easy. Men’s lives tend to get harder after divorce because their wives were doing so much they never even realized. Women’s lives tend to get easier, happier, more free.

@USJewishDems @nytimes What happened to the non-minority people in those districts? Were they given the opportunity to vote for someone of their choice or were they discriminated against due to the color of their skin?

The VRA fundamentally changed Black Americans’ access to the voting booth, allowing Black voters a chance to vote for someone of their choice. Last week, SCOTUS gutted this provision. @nytimes shares how the VRA changed Black representation in the House in Southern states: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@Rothmus sperately? Really?

“I’m not sorry these changes have occurred. I would rather see it coming up with some education, but they’ve got no education. And it’ll take them a couple of hundred years. They’ve only just come down from the trees.” Needless to say, this experiment failed. Diverse peoples from incompatible civilizations do not assimilate as equals. The drive for ‘equality and reconciliation’ has resulted in more racist laws today than under apartheid.

@Marc_Kenyon @allenanalysis Hell...beyond which, you don't have to RUN for an office to be elected to that office. As unlikely as it is, write-in candidates have won elections in the past, so the 'no state in the country would put them on the ballot' is also meaningless.

@Avigdore @allenanalysis The operative word is "run". They are not eligible to run if they served two previous terms and no state in the country would put them on the ballot. So the answer is they can't run.