He is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. He can post all the slop he wants, it doesn’t change that fact.
Should he actually file to run again, the States (who actually run the elections) are within their rights to deny the application. Should some states let him run anyway, that will be challenged by voters (and perhaps by candidates). His campaign would fight those denials, and courts should just dismiss the candidacy out of hand, but some courts have made batshit crazy rulings before.
Even if all the courts rule against him, though, I am not aware of any statute that says it’s illegal to say you will run in an election you might be Ineligible for. If anything, courts will uphold that as free speech.
These rulings are also showing us legality means nothing unless there are people there to enforce it. Time and time again the administration has done something blatantly illegal and then caused irreparable damage while the “courts” figured it out and “stopped” them. This administration has been absolutely enlightening on the entire judicial system.
“Not legal” does not always mean criminal.
He is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. He can post all the slop he wants, it doesn’t change that fact.
Should he actually file to run again, the States (who actually run the elections) are within their rights to deny the application. Should some states let him run anyway, that will be challenged by voters (and perhaps by candidates). His campaign would fight those denials, and courts should just dismiss the candidacy out of hand, but some courts have made batshit crazy rulings before.
Even if all the courts rule against him, though, I am not aware of any statute that says it’s illegal to say you will run in an election you might be Ineligible for. If anything, courts will uphold that as free speech.
These rulings are also showing us legality means nothing unless there are people there to enforce it. Time and time again the administration has done something blatantly illegal and then caused irreparable damage while the “courts” figured it out and “stopped” them. This administration has been absolutely enlightening on the entire judicial system.