Subject: Re: Totally OT: Trump as Jesus
Frontal attacks on the rules are sometimes too much bother.
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That was already addressed.
US Constitution, Amendment XXII, Section 1:

Yes, that's clear. But it says nothing at all about whether anyone will try, nor indeed succeed. The notion that it won't be attempted because of that clause presupposes that the constitution will be followed by the US administration all the time. That is clearly not policy this year.* So, as with any human behaviour, it could perhaps become as question of what one can get away with, not what is within the rules.

Just because something is against the law doesn't mean nobody will do it, nor indeed does it even mean that nobody will get away with it. This is a general rule, true from shoplifting through genocides.

Jim


* There are plausible prima facie arguments to be made about intent to, or fact of, violating the birthright citizenship clause, war powers clause, appropriations clause, due process clause, and take care clause, to name a few, something about insurrectionists. I'm not American, so I don't know 'em all, just the famous ones like Pikachu and Bulbasaur.