Would DJT actually be permitted to serve a third term as FDR did? Why was FDR permitted to a third term anyhow, legally speaking?

[mysteriousNicholas]

I'm not American, so maybe you Americans who are smarty brains can fill us in lol 📚 📖

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🙃 flip smiley emoji. Shrug, I guess Congress changes laws and makes laws all the time. So I guess we'll never know or until 2028 rolls around, 2032 comes around, shrug "I'm no law maker" lol and "I'm no law scholar" lol 🤭👀
Who knows, maybe even SCOTUS (the Americans supreme court) will eventually rule on third terms, someday
Doesn't affect me, I'm just an observer far away of some political news. That's all 📰🗞️ less so as I age, lol aging old timer me ⌛ ⏰

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I mean global politics becomes more boring and more irrelevant the older a man gets 👀🤭 the older a person gets, as an observer or a hobbyist it just becomes blah boring blah 😋 peace y'all ✌🏻🕊️

[MysticDevice]

FDR is WHY there are presidential term limits. After him we were like "yeeeahhh no, lets reign this in a little bit."

So no. Under no circumstances, not one, would Donald Trump be able to run for a third term.

[mysteriousNicholas]

@MysticDevice okay dokey then. Shrug, I guess Congress changes laws and makes laws all the time. So I guess we'll never know or until 2028 rolls around, 2032 comes around, shrug 🙃 "I'm no law maker" lol and I'm no law scholar lol

[slatyb]

FDR was allowed because the twenty-second amendment was approved by Congress on February 6, 1947 after FDR had died.

en.wikipedia.org/.../Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[mysteriousNicholas]

@slatyb was FDR's third term any good?

[slatyb]

People were pretty happy with FDR or they wouldn't have re-elected him. Then they elected him again in 1944 but he died in 1945.

[mysteriousNicholas]

@slatyb do you think congress would pass a change to the amendment? Regardless of if it's the congress of now or the congress after the upcoming midterms? I mean in your heart of hearts of groundhog day - do you think they will? Pass it? A bill lol or an act + or an amendment. And yes whatever SCOTUS or whatever eventual decision if it ends up in SCOTUS to decide - lol like Bush V Gore lol

[slatyb]

No, they would not. It takes a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate, and then it has to be ratified by 3/4 of the states (38). There is no chance it will be repealed or amended.

[mysteriousNicholas]

@slatyb I think , if I wanted to be edgy or a bad guesser, I may be right who knows: I think DJT or at least with "advisers" like Bannon or other close circle - I think he'll at least ask Republicans to draft the legislation - I guess depends on midterms.

[AgentG111]

1951 22nd amendment say only two terms.

We aren't looking to change that and we are trying to vote and get made law that there are term limits to Congress and Senate as well.

Americans have had enough and the diapers need changed!