Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles has proposed laws that may amend the Structure, permitting Donald Trump to run for a 3rd presidential time period.
“I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” Ogles mentioned in a press release. “This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
Ogles additionally argued that the administration of President Joe Biden had left America in “decay,” echoing the false narrative provided by Trump and different Republicans. Nonpartisan information exhibits that beneath Biden the unemployment charge fell, crime decreased, and manufacturing facility openings and infrastructure spending has considerably elevated.
Ogles’ modification contains the next wording: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms.”
The change would upend the present legislation as specified by the twenty second Modification, which limits presidential phrases to 2. The one president in U.S. historical past to be elected to greater than two phrases was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who notably spent the majority of his presidency in a battle in opposition to world fascism and constructing the social security internet—whereas Trump has embraced fascists and seeks to chop the online.
However what is especially notable is that the Ogles change features a restrict of two consecutive phrases.
There are 4 former presidents which are alive, along with Trump. Of these males, solely two could be eligible for an additional shot on the presidency if Ogles had his means—Trump and Biden. The legislation would conveniently prohibit Presidents Invoice Clinton, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush from operating once more as a result of all of them served two consecutive phrases.
Conveniently Trump’s two-term Democratic predecessors all have electoral information considerably dwarfing Trump’s observe report. Trump received the 2024 race with a preferred vote margin of 1.5% and that’s the solely of the thrice he has run for president that he acquired a preferred vote majority or plurality (he misplaced the favored vote to former Sec. Hillary Clinton in 2016).
In contrast, Obama has the second largest fashionable vote margin of all of the dwelling presidents due to his 7.27% victory in 2008 in opposition to the late Sen. John McCain. Obama’s reelection win additionally comes out properly forward of Trump, after he received by 3.86% in 2012 in his defeat of former Sen. Mitt Romney.
Clinton, who is definitely two months youthful than Trump, additionally has a significantly better electoral observe report. Clinton received by 5.56% in 1992 and by 8.51% in 1996—the most important margin of the dwelling presidents.
Even his fellow Republican Bush, who like Trump additionally misplaced the favored vote earlier than his first presidency, outperformed Trump.
A constitutional modification doesn’t simply want approval from Congress, but in addition has to be ratified by 38 of the 50 states. Traditionally this has been a cautious and deliberate course of and very uncommon. The final modification to be added is the twenty seventh modification, which turned legislation in 1992.
Ogles’ proposal is the work of a Trump supporter making an attempt to increase his presidency in an impractical means. The congressman has been criticized within the feedback of his Instagram account for pushing for the unlikely laws only a day after a college taking pictures in his district, arguably a extra urgent concern.
However then once more, how else might he present his devotion to the MAGA trigger?
