Another in an ongoing series:
Dear Senator McCormick;
I am a constituent of yours and I'd like to ask you a few questions.
As you know, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution reads:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
And the 12th Amendment to the Constitution ends with:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
The meaning is clear, isn't it? And yet this week The New York Times reported:
Stephen K. Bannon, the pro-Trump podcaster and convicted fraudster who briefly served as President Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, publicly threw his support behind the president’s talk of seeking a third term, in defiance of a constitutionally mandated two-term limit.
In an interview with The Economist, Mr. Bannon vaguely asserted that there was “a plan” to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice,” regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. He also suggested that he was part of a team developing that plan.
“Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” he said.
You took an oath to "support and defend" the Constitution when you were seated in the US Senate and the Constitution includes both those amendments. The 22nd and 12th Amendments are rather huge obstacles to Bannon's plan, don't you think?
What are your assurances that this Trump Administration will not be followed by a third?
I'll await your answer.
As always, I'll post here whatever answer I get from you or your office, Senator.
