{"id":47200,"date":"2025-09-09T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47200"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:18:13","slug":"barrett-weighs-in-on-trump-third-term-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47200","title":{"rendered":"Barrett weighs in on Trump third-term talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2002<\/u><\/a>weighed in on President Trump floating the idea of a third term, acknowledging the 22nd Amendment prevents more than two terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News \u201cSpecial Report\u201d host Bret Baier\u2002<\/u><\/a>said in an interview with Barrett that aired Monday, \u201cThe 22nd Amendment says you can only run for office for two terms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrue,\u201d replied Barrett, who was nominated by Trump in his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Baier asked if she thought \u201cthat\u2019s cut-and-dried,\u201d Barrett said, \u201cWell, that\u2019s, you know, that\u2019s what the amendment says, right? You know, after FDR\u2002<\/u><\/a>had four terms, that\u2019s what that amendment says.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2002<\/u><\/a>was elected for a third term in 1940 and later died in office during his fourth term, in 1945. In 1951, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment, which put the two-term tradition that dated back to George Washington\u2002<\/u><\/a>into the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View,\u201d Barrett\u2019s liberal colleague, Justice Sonia Sotomayor,<\/u><\/a> was asked if she believes the 22nd Amendment is settled law<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sotomayor agreed that while the Constitution was settled law, no one had ever challenged the 22nd Amendment regarding running for a third term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one has tried to challenge that. Until somebody tries, you don\u2019t know. So, it\u2019s not settled because we don\u2019t have a court case about that issue, but it is in the Constitution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd one should understand that there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s the greater law in the United States than the Constitution of the United States,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and some of his allies have repeatedly floated<\/u><\/a> the idea of a third term<\/u><\/a> for him. At times, those comments have been dismissed as a joke, though Trump has at other points appeared more serious about the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president last month said<\/u><\/a> he would \u201cprobably not\u201d seek a third term, but added he would \u201clike to run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, the president said, \u201cPeople are asking me to run. I don\u2019t know, I never looked into it. And they do say there\u2019s a way you can do it, but I don\u2019t know about that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also has said it\u2019s too soon to settle on a successor to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, but has acknowledged Vice President Vance is the \u201cmost likely\u201d heir apparent<\/u><\/a>. The president also suggested Secretary of State Marco Rubio,<\/u><\/a> who ran for president in 2016, could make a formidable ticket with Vance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2002weighed in on President Trump floating the idea of a third term, acknowledging the 22nd Amendment prevents more than two terms. Fox News \u201cSpecial Report\u201d host Bret Baier\u2002said in an interview with Barrett that aired Monday, \u201cThe 22nd Amendment says you can only run for office for two terms.\u201d \u201cTrue,\u201d replied Barrett, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34569,3732,34605,1230],"class_list":["post-47200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-barrett","tag-negotiation","tag-third-term-2","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47212,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200\/revisions\/47212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}