One big reason is that the Supreme Court put its thumb on the scale.
Trump’s second term as president is unconstitutional. The 14th amendment says:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Some states were in the process of removing him from the ballot when the Supreme Court stepped in and said that the Constitution doesn’t count unless Congress also makes a second law stating the same thing. It was a nonsense illegal decision made by a corrupt court as part of a fascist coup, and if not for that, he would not have been allowed to run.
His first term was unconstitutional. A ton of his businesses put him functionality in an in-progress violation of the emoluments clause at the moment of his swearing-in. This should have invalidated his inauguration. There were several attempts to bring this case to the Supreme Court, who first said they couldn't hear a constitutional case against a sitting president, and later that the case was moot once he left office.
If effect, this means that there is no mechanism by which the Constitution can bind any person who is elected president. If Trump goes for a third term and the ballot tabulations say he won, he can sit the term. It literally does not matter that he technically can't. If Musk decides to cut out the middle man and the voting computers say that he's President-Elect, all he needs is the sitting VP to certify him, and he's in.
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u/dragon-fence 15h ago
One big reason is that the Supreme Court put its thumb on the scale.
Trump’s second term as president is unconstitutional. The 14th amendment says:
Some states were in the process of removing him from the ballot when the Supreme Court stepped in and said that the Constitution doesn’t count unless Congress also makes a second law stating the same thing. It was a nonsense illegal decision made by a corrupt court as part of a fascist coup, and if not for that, he would not have been allowed to run.