Why We’re Talking About the Loophole That Could Give Trump a Third Term

Legal scholars have identified a potential workaround that a president with dictatorial ambitions might seek to exploit in pursuit of a third term.

Sign up for the Slatesthas been widely assumed to allow each president no more than two terms in office. But some legal scholars havethat a president with dictatorial ambitions—that is, someone like Donald Trump—might seek to exploit in pursuit of a third term. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed this theory on a recent episode of, and their conversation prompted low-key social media debate as well as a large dose of skepticism.

And we’re doing so against the backdrop of a Supreme Court that’s been infused with the spirit of MAGA—and that has repeatedly contorted the law to benefit Trump. We are not endorsing Trump’s dictatorial dreams and schemes. But we are letting you know, with our “lawyer brains,” how he might seek to make them a legal reality with the willing assistance of a compromised

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