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00:00Could Trump actually find a way around the 22nd amendment to run for a third term?

00:04The current president says there are methods, leaving experts to chime in on the possible

00:09loopholes. President Trump recently spoke with NBC News where he was once again asked if he had

00:14plans to run for a third term. The president responded, there are methods in which you could

00:19do it. Now when NBC pressed him on these methods, including the possibility of Vice President J.D.

00:24Vance running at the top of the ticket with Trump in the second slot, then swapping positions once

00:29Vance was elected, Trump agreed stating, that's one. Of course critics took to X to share their

00:35thoughts, including one passionate anti-Trump podcaster from New Jersey who wrote, P.S.A.,

00:41there are not methods for Donald Trump to serve a third term. But what Adjojo from JERS is failing

00:46to see is that this is a hypothetical method that does not go against the constitution,

00:51and was explained in a 1999 Minnesota Law Review article called The Twice and Future President.

00:57You see, the 22nd amendment states no person shall be elected to the office of president

01:02more than twice. And under this theory, if Vance resigned, Trump wouldn't be elected. He would

01:08simply take over as president because his predecessor couldn't finish the term. However,

01:13NPR reports that legal experts view the last sentence of the 12th amendment,

01:17which governs the electoral college, as the amendment states, no person constitutionally

01:22ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United

01:28States. But Gloria Brown Marshall, a constitutional law professor at John Jay College of Criminal

01:33Justice, told NPR, if you think about it, the 22nd amendment assumes that one would follow

01:39the constitution. A reminder that, as written, the law focuses on the word elected, meaning nothing

01:45in the constitution explicitly prevents a person from running again. So although it does seem like

01:51there are hypothetical loopholes that could allow for a third term, the current president isn't

01:56focused on that right now, telling NBC News, a lot of people want me to do it, but I mean,

02:01I basically tell them we have a long way to go. You know, it's very early in the administration.

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