Laurence Tribe suggests a loophole Trump may try to seek a third term. The operative word is "elected."

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Anyone discounting a 3d Trump term per the 22d am + the 12th am is thinking magically: The 22d dsn’t bar *serving* a 3d term, only being *elected* 3 times. The 12th dsn’t bar running for VP unless “ineligible” to serve as Pres, but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED!
7:28 AM · Mar 31, 2025

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Potential loopholes in the Constitution could help Trump snag another term as president. (The Daily Beast)

The 22nd Amendment states: “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”

This sentiment is echoed in the 12th Amendment, which goes on to say that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

Tribe noted how, per the 12th Amendment, Trump isn’t “ineligible” to serve as vice president, as he is a natural-born citizen of the United States.

Yet Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, believes that if the 22nd Amendment makes Trump ineligible to run for president again, that also makes him ineligible to run for vice president.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/constitutional-expert-laurence-tribe-warns-how-trump-really-could-get-third-term/

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In short, can Trump use the letter of the law to defeat the purpose of the law.