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Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0 (apnews.com)

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His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

There is almost a zero chance Trump will run in 2028. He is old and that would be his third term. JD Vance is really the successor.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

There is almost a zero chance Trump will run in 2028. He is old and that would be his third term.

Prior to FDR, there was a convention -- but no legal restriction -- that Presidents would only serve two terms. This stemmed from some statement that Washington made -- he was getting really old, not far from dying and didn't really want to be President in the first place, but got repeatedly argued into it, as he was one figure that had widespread support across the country.

FDR broke that convention, served three-and-some terms and died in office.

After that, Republicans passed the Twenty-second Amendment prohibiting Presidents from serving more than two terms.

Today, you can only do two full terms. If you succeed an existing president -- like, you're Vice President and the President dies in office, you can do part of that, can't recall what portion is permissible. So Trump is out after this term.

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Yeah, can be any partial amount of their term, isn't like "over 50% of their term" counts as a term.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

So it wouldn't even be unconstitutional if someone kept running for vice president and have the presidents resign immediately after being sworn in?

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