Don’t take something without any consideration. Not even the twenty second Modification.
Such is the warning of Supreme Court docket Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who cautioned throughout an look on “The View” Tuesday that something may be challenged. (Watch the video within the participant above.)
Though the twenty second Modification plainly states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” that doesn’t imply somebody ― President Donald Trump, maybe ― can’t declare to interpret it a special method.
Sotomayor allotted the warning in response to a query from “View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin about Trump’s repeated strategies he would possibly attempt to keep in workplace on the finish of his second time period.
“There has been talk that Donald Trump might seek a third term,” stated Griffin, a former Trump adviser.
“It’s my personal belief that if he did, the Republican Party would likely support him,” she continued. “The 22nd Amendment prohibits somebody from seeking a third term in office. Do you believe the 22nd Amendment is settled law?”
“The Constitution is settled law,” Sotomayor replied. “No one has tried to challenge that. Until somebody tries, you don’t know. So, it’s not settled because we don’t have a court case about that issue, but it is in the Constitution,” she continued.
“One should understand that there’s nothing that is the greater law in the United States than the Constitution of the United States,” Sotomayor added.
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Earlier within the interview, Sotomayor struck a extra introspective tone as she mirrored on the burden of the court docket’s current choice enabling racial profiling by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers in Los Angeles.
Past its rapid penalties, the choice can have unintended ripple results, the justice predicted.
“It affects your future. And it affects the conduct of leaders in the future, because what we permit today is not going to be duplicated exactly tomorrow. It’s going to be something different,” stated Sotomayor.
“It will be a different group of people. It will be a different situation. But once we have approved it, it sets a precedent that can be … really bad.”
“Each time we change precedent, we are changing the contours of a right that people thought they had. Once you take that away, think of how much more is at risk later,” she later added.
Fox Information’ Bret Baier posed an identical query concerning the twenty second Modification to Supreme Court docket Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, and she or he supplied a considerably ambiguous response, sparking alarm amongst political observers.
“The 22nd Amendment says you can only run for office for two terms,” Baier famous, to which Barrett replied: “True.”
Requested if she thinks “that’s cut and dry,” nevertheless, she didn’t precisely reply within the affirmative.
“Well, that’s, you know, that’s what the amendment says, right?” Barrett stated. “After FDR had four terms, that’s what that amendment says.”
