In a surprising move, Republican lawmaker Rep. Andy Ogles has introduced a House Joint Resolution aimed at amending the US Constitution to allow former President Donald Trump to serve a third term.¹ ² This proposal has sparked significant attention and debate.
According to reports, Ogles’ resolution is motivated by a desire for “bold leadership” and a need to “restore America”.³ However, it’s essential to note that any constitutional amendment would require a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate or a convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is pushing a new amendment to the Constitution that would give a president three terms in office, but no more than two consecutive four-year stints.
The amendment would say, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, prevents a person from serving as president for more than two terms.
It was passed by Congress in 1947 in response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning four terms in the White House. Roosevelt died the year after he was elected to his fourth term in the 1944 presidential election.
But in a statement released to media on Thursday, Ogles said Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.”
“To that end, I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” Ogles said. “This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
Trump made comments about serving a third term to House Republicans during a closed-door speech late last year, but multiple sources who attended the event told Fox News Digital that the then-president-elect was joking.
