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Alan
Dershowitz
continues
his
late-in-life
transition
from
esteemed
Harvard
Law
School
scholar
to
Temu
Eli
Cash
with
an
upcoming
book
titled
Could
President
Trump
Constitutionally
Serve
a
Third
Term?
Coming
this
March!
Thrill
as
the
professor
emeritus
spins
out
a
polemic
attempting
to
muddy
the
crystal
clear
waters
of
interpreting
the
22nd
Amendment.
Could
President
Trump
constitutionally
serve
a
third
term?
No,
of
course
not.
But
that’s
not
going
to
stop
Dershowitz
from
peddling
half-baked
hemming
and
hawing
to
legions
of
MAGAheads
willing
to
hand
over
their
disposable
income
for
fascism
fanfiction.
And
Dershowitz
tells
the
Wall
Street
Journal
that
he’s
told
Donald
Trump
that
the
Constitution
isn’t
clear
about
this
subject,
which
must
have
thrilled
the
guy
who
cheered
on
a
coup
and
already
started
minting
Trump
2028
hats.
“[Trump]
found
it
interesting
as
an
intellectual
issue,”
Dershowitz
told
the
Journal
describing
a
conversation
with
a
man
intellectually
challenged
by
correctly
identifying
a
giraffe.
It’s
not
just
Trump
enthralled
by
this
tinfoil
hat
constitutionalism.
Casino
heiress
Miriam
Adelson
announced
at
the
White
House
Hanukkah
party
that
she’d
drop
$250
million
on
a
Trump
2028
campaign
based
on
Dershowitz
telling
her
it
was
legal.
The
crowd
chanted
“Four
more
years!”
“No
person
shall
be
elected
to
the
office
of
the
President
more
than
twice,”
reads
the
text
that
Dershowitz
is
trying
to
assign
the
“It’s
Complicated”
tag.
“I
said
‘it’s
not
clear
if
a
president
can
become
a
third-term
president,
and
it’s
not
clear
if
it’s
permissible,’”
Dershowitz
said
as
though
words
have
no
meaning.
It
is,
in
fact,
clear.
Even
if
the
text
were
not
so
clear,
no
one
is
struggling
to
understand
the
original
meaning
of
the
provision
since
the
22nd
Amendment
was
ratified
in
1951.
People
are
STILL
ALIVE.
It’s
not
a
murky
interpretive
project
if
it’s
written
contemporaneously
with
an
episode
of
I
Love
Lucy.
There
is
no
mystery:
FDR
got
elected
four
times
and
this
annoyed
Republicans
so
much
they
made
a
rule.
It
exists
to
make
sure
no
one
gets
to
be
president
more
than
twice.
If
you
can’t
figure
out
the
original
public
meaning
of
the
22nd
Amendment,
you
shouldn’t
be
allowed
to
publish
a
book
about
the
law.
Indeed,
if
you
can’t
figure
out
the
original
public
meaning
of
the
22nd
Amendment,
you
probably
shouldn’t
be
allowed
to
operate
heavy
machinery.
There’s
no
penumbra
to
plumb.
No
Federalist
Papers
to
read
through
a
Cracker
Jack
decoder
ring.
There’s
a
straightforward
command
that
no
one
in
Trump’s
position
gets
to
be
president
again.
Instead,
Dershowitz
is
wasting
everyone’s
time
spitballing
loony
loopholes
like
Electoral
College
members
abstaining
so
that
no
candidate
reaches
270
votes
and
then
throwing
the
decision
to
Congress
to
“select”
rather
than
“elect”
the
president.
Maybe
he
could
be
the
Speaker
of
the
House
and
wait
for
his
sock
puppets
to
get
elected
and
promptly
resign.
At
this
point,
it
would’ve
been
easier
to
just
let
him
have
that
pierogi.
It’s
embarrassing,
but
also
a
potentially
tragic
teaser
of
the
2028
Supreme
Court
docket.
Trump’s
cronies
on
the
Court
are
already
trying
to
“well,
maybe”
their
way
into
a
president-for-life
and
Dershowitz
is
there
to
provide
grist
for
that
mill.
He’s
just
doing
his
part
for
a
cause
that
needs
credentialed
lawyers
to
sanewash
anti-democratic
nonsense
into
something
that
sounds
like
scholarship
instead
of
a
coup
hype
mix.
After
spending
the
last
decade
as
“Guy
Who
Will
Say
Any
Insane
Thing
On
Television
If
It
Helps
Donald
Trump,”
Dershowitz
doesn’t
carry
the
same
reputational
heft
he
once
did…
but
maybe
it’s
enough
for
this
Court.
Either
way,
Dershowitz
can
collect
his
checks
and
bask
in
his
favorite
past
time
as
a
cable
news
talking
head
laying
out
increasingly
bizarre
legal
wishcasting.
And
then
he
can
enjoy
his
second-favorite
pastime:
complaining
when
the
Martha’s
Vineyard
public
library
doesn’t
host
his
book
tour.
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