Can DNC nominate Barack Obama running mate for Kamala Harris? Is it possible under 22nd Amendment to US Constitution? Details here
Barack Obama be nominated as the running mate of Kamala Harris? Does the US Constitution allow a twice-elected president to run for the office of the vice president? Or is he ineligible for any office including that of vice president? These questions have popped up after US President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. If media reports are to be believed, Barack Obama played a significant role in convincing Biden to pull out despite supporting him earlier. He even attended Biden's fundraising program and endorsed him. Now the former president has come out openly to back and endorse Kamala Harris. What next?
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The 22nd Amendment
The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution says in the most unambiguous term that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
The 12th Amendment
Similarly, the 12th Amendment says that no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. So, the moot point is whether a twice-elected former president is Constitutionally ineligible. The 22nd Amendment does not say that such a person is constitutionally ineligible.
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According to 'USA Today', Michael Dorf, a law professor at Cornell University, said in 2000 that a
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