I would suggest that Trump could suspend or ‘interpret’ the 22nd amendment and continue as Chief Executive under some other title (possibly taken from Confederacy of the States, Civil War, or WWII eras). Perhaps Head Of State duties could be handed off to another official like Pence or the New House Speaker. I’m sure there’s a set of lawyers in a D.C. basement who could argue it out.
They could also skip that part and run it through a newly-scoured clean congress process, perhaps even electing Trump via state delegations.
Who would take over as president until those 8-12 months? Pence?
Yup. Pence is actually the big guns. Always has been.
I would suggest that Trump could suspend or ‘interpret’ the 22nd amendment and continue as Chief Executive under some other title (possibly taken from Confederacy of the States, Civil War, or WWII eras). Perhaps Head Of State duties could be handed off to another official like Pence or the New House Speaker. I’m sure there’s a set of lawyers in a D.C. basement who could argue it out.
They could also skip that part and run it through a newly-scoured clean congress process, perhaps even electing Trump via state delegations.