[lelandfe]

Trying to reinterpret "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" to allow for that would be quite a spectacular feat of jurisprudence.

[sirbutters]

Key word here is "elected". Prepare for their justification like "well XYZ is not really an election so...."

[raisedbyninjas]

Just expanding the court with pure loyalists seems easier.

[scotty79]

It's just 22nd amendment. Can't be more important than the will of the nation. The only question is do the Americans like Trump as much as they like booze or can it be at least made to look like they do.

[barkerja]

Theoretically, if changes were put into place to allow a run for a third term (which is highly unlikely given age), then that also opens the door for someone like Obama running again.

[psunavy03]

People don't seem to understand that even Trump's judges still see themselves as JUDGES. They're not going to just make stuff up that's not in the law, and there were several instances in his first term where his own SCOTUS Justices told him to pound sand. It's not so simple as "nominated by Trump == inherently corrupt," much as he'd like it to be that way.

[hackernewds]

you must have not heard of Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas and Aileen Cannon

[lelandfe]

As a counter point, almost all of the Trump decision was "made up." Especially all of the stuff about admissibility of evidence is whole cloth law.

[scotty79]

> They're not going to just make stuff up that's not in the law,

The mechanism is that Trump makes up the law, then it's sent to judges and they say "yup, this law is fine and just and in line with US law system".

> Justices told him to pound sand

He learned. Now he selects for loyalty alone.

[hackernewds]

new legislation can be passed at any point by an elected house