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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...
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 ...
: there is no credible reporting that a majority of ’s Cabinet formally signed and delivered a (the involuntary “25th Amendment”) declaration removing him from office; journalists and analysts documen...
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...
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 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...
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...
There is no record in the provided reporting that has ever authorized postponing or delaying a federal election for emergency reasons; constitutional and statutory authority over rests with and, in pr...
The century-plus legal practice of granting citizenship to nearly everyone born on soil now faces an acute constitutional and political assault: the fast-tracked review of the Trump administration’s e...
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...
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...
All that has declared ratified are treated as part of the Constitution in the official documentary record: the Bill of Rights (amendments 1–10) and the subsequent 17 amendments are listed and publishe...
is widely judged by scholars to be among the presidents—often the worst—because his administration failed to avert the secession crisis that led to the and because he presided over a fractured party a...
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‑...