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Donald Trump and his campaigns have repeatedly called for imposing term limits on members of Congress and have publicly pledged to push for a constitutional amendment to that effect, typically advocat...
The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment says only that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” which on its face limits election, not all service; legal scholars and off...
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause bars states from depriving “any person” of life, liberty, or property without due process, and courts have repeatedly held that this protection reaches no...
West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War chiefly because northwestern Virginians opposed Virginia’s 1861 decision to secede from the Union and long-standing regional grievances over repr...
Republican Representative Andy Ogles introduced a House resolution in January 2025 proposing to amend the 22nd Amendment so a person could be elected president three times — language he framed explici...
The 25th Amendment gives the vice president plus a majority of the Cabinet—or “such other body as Congress may by law provide”—the power to declare the president unable to discharge the office and imm...
The Twenty‑Second Amendment bars anyone from being elected President more than twice but does not unambiguously say that a twice‑elected former president cannot later serve as President by succession ...
Congress has clear constitutional authority to set the date for federal elections under the Elections Clause and existing statutes, so the primary statutory path to “postpone” an election is for Congr...
Legal challenges to the Constitution’s 35‑year minimum for President and Vice President have been rare and have not succeeded in overturning that requirement; scholars and government guides record the...
Congress approved the text that became the 22nd Amendment in March 1947 and the states completed ratification on February 27, 1951; the vote coalition was Republicans plus several Southern Democrats a...
The FBI director is nominated by the President and must be confirmed by the Senate; Congress capped the term at a single 10‑year appointment in 1976 to insulate the office from politics . When the off...
The U.S. Constitution, by the Twenty‑Second Amendment, bars any person from being elected President more than twice and bars someone who has served more than two years of another’s term from being ele...
Three clusters of litigation involving —eligibility/birther challenges, ’s 2014 lawsuit led by against executive actions implementing the , and repeated state-led challenges including and multistate s...
The materials supplied for this query primarily concern the Voting Rights Act and other election statutes, not the constitutional provision commonly referred to when asking whether acting, non‑Senate‑...
Three Presidents—Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—have been impeached by the House; none were convicted by the Senate, while Richard Nixon resigned before the House completed impeachment ...
State laws provide a patchwork of mechanisms that can, in some circumstances, delay or alter the timing and administration of elections after a declared emergency — primarily through election-specific...
A constitutional change to allow a third elected presidential term would require a formal amendment to the U.S. Constitution — a political and procedural mountain that needs two-thirds of both chamber...
Retired senior officers have publicly said that military personnel should refuse clearly unlawful orders: for example, retired Air Force General Michael Hayden told an HBO audience that “you are not r...
Public reporting establishes that President Joe Biden personally authorized or directly took responsibility for specific U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen and for operations tied to threa...
The Constitution places the Suspension Clause in Article I, Section 9 and permits suspension only “when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it,” but does not spell out exac...