Scrutable

monkey wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:59 pm As far as 3rd terms go, the 22nd amendment is pretty explicit. Even a Trumpist judge would find it hard to find an exception to it. He (or somebody else) might be able to sneak in a third term by becoming VP and having the P resign, but the bit about being elected president is very clear.

Amendments can be repealed, if you have sufficient number in the Congress and Senate (which Trump doesn't)

Martin_B wrote: Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:38 am

monkey wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:59 pm As far as 3rd terms go, the 22nd amendment is pretty explicit. Even a Trumpist judge would find it hard to find an exception to it. He (or somebody else) might be able to sneak in a third term by becoming VP and having the P resign, but the bit about being elected president is very clear.

Amendments can be repealed, if you have sufficient number in the Congress and Senate (which Trump doesn't)

And three quarters of the states.

In today's evenly divided and highly partisan environment, it's hard to imagine any constitutional amendment passing, even to affirm that the Earth is round and 2+2=4. The last one, almost 30 years ago, had been hanging around waiting for ratification since 1789. Before that, it was giving 18 year olds the right to vote in 1971.

bolo wrote: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:29 pm The last one, almost 30 years ago, had been hanging around waiting for ratification since 1789.

That was a fun little wiki walk.

I’m slightly bemused by the 80 year gap between Kentucky ratifying it in 1792 then Ohio ratifying it in 1873 then another
105 year wait for Wyoming.

What was going on Ohio in the 1870s that made them suddenly dust off a near century old Amendment which almost everyone else appeared to have forgotten about (to the extent Kentucky had even forgotten it had ever ratified it)?

To be fair, the prohibition amendment was ratified and repealed in a relatively short period of time.

Still waiting on the Equal Rights Amendment, mind.