{"id":8,"date":"2003-06-19T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8.html"},"modified":"2003-06-19T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T14:10:57","slug":"al-frankens-plan-for-bill-clintons-third-term-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/al-frankens-plan-for-bill-clintons-third-term-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken’s plan for Bill Clinton’s third term won’t work"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was writing<\/a> about Bill Clinton’s desire to see changes made to the 22nd Amendment<\/a>, which limits presidents to two terms.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I noted that Al Franken, among others, has floated a silly scheme<\/a> whereby someone picks Clinton to be their vice-presidential running mate, then promptly after the inauguration, that person steps aside so Clinton can become president again.<\/p>\n

Newsweek described this absurdity as “arguably constitutional.” The magazine went on to say that legal scholars such as Allan J. Lichtman and Darrell West agree that Franken has a point. Even I started to buy into it, though I realized this was more of a fun thought experiment than a legitimate political strategy.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out we were all wrong.
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\nMartin Tullai, of Lutherville, Md., wrote a great letter-to-the-editor to Newsweek, published in the current issue. Tullai wisely puts a stop to this by pointing out that the scheme may work under the 22nd amendment, but not under the 12th amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States,” the amendment explains.<\/p>\n

That settles it. Because Clinton is ineligible to run again for president, he’s also ineligible to be vice-president. Looks like we’ll have to vote for one of the actual Democratic candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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