• dhork@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The 12th amendment states

    But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States

    That seems pretty definitive. The only attack to it I can see (and it’s total bullshit) is that the Originalists on this court may insist on interpreting this amendment based on the state of the Constitution when it was ratified in 1804, and the term limits weren’t passed until 1952.

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      21 days ago

      The way around that is making him speaker of the house and having both the president and vice president resign. Speaker doesn’t have any real requirements on it.