Hardly any legal ways – Trump could only extend the term with coup

Trump recently repeatedly confirmed his ambitions until a third term, although the American Constitution prohibits this in 1951. Kirk Junker, an expert in American legislation, sees practically insurmountable obstacles of constitutional, but also a political way for the Republican proposal.

“The only concrete alternative that Trump mentions states was that Vice -President JD Vance obtains the White House in the event of a future election and subsequently handed over the presidency to him. But the 12th additional article (about the election of president and vice -president, note) forbids: a person who is not in question for the office of the office of the office.

Change in the constitution extremely unrealistic
The “only realistic alternative” would be a constitutional change, according to the US professor from the US. But here too the obstacles are so high for a necessary majority that they would be insurmountable to Trump in the current political circumstances.

The Trump area has already admitted that they have worked on an “alternative”:

“A constitutional amendment requires a two -thirds majority in both houses of the congress or a constitutional treaty, which must be requested by at least 34 of the 50 US states.” Junker therefore does not take a third term for Trump into account from the perspective of constitutional law. “There is really a constitution, a written constitution and his (note Trump) legal power is limited.”

According to the American Constitution, the parliament, the congress, consisting of the Senate and the House of Represented Junker. “The federal congress is the legal instrument number 1.” This is also the reason why the provisions for the congress in Article 1 of the Constitution are in force since 1789. But the president “is not a legislator. He can only do what the federal congress and the federal constitution allow,” the legal expert emphasized.

Trump helps the judiciary
In the “Checks and Balances” system of the American Constitution, the judiciary is the third authority of compensation. Here, however, Junker sees a certain entrance gate for political influence, because all federal judges are presented by the president. “This is really a powerful instrument of the president. This is one of the most powerful.

In recent decades, congress has made a considerable political decision -making weakness in controversial issues, the expert has criticized. As a result, the Supreme Court would have received its current decisive interest as an interpreter of the constitution and the decisions of the president. “If a federal congress does not accept enough laws or the laws are not clear enough, a president has a lot of discretion.”

“Voters are always dissatisfied”
The expert recalled that the Republicans currently dominate all three power files in the United States – the congress, the presidency and also the Supreme Court. However, he would not describe this as a gap in the system, but only as a “political coincidence”. The professor referred to the two -year intermediary congress elections (interim elections): in these elections American citizens would usually vote for the respective counterparty. “The voters are always dissatisfied.”

Trump had recently said in an interview that he could certainly imagine a third term, although the US constitution was only two installments. In the conversation with the NBC news channel on Sunday, Trump told a question: “I am not a joke.” On Tuesday he followed: “People ask me to run.”