22nd/25th Amendments questions

[alomas]

I have a few question about these amendments.

22nd - What if a VP succeeds to the presidency for a year when the president dies when runs as VP and his ticket is elected and he again assumes the presidency for 1,5 years. Is he eligible for two more terms still? And if he serves more than two years of two terms is he ineligible to run?

25th - If Congress uphelds VP's challenge to POTUS's reluctance to give power - how POTUS can regain it?

[brucejoel99]

1. "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 once." Doesn't matter whether it's consecutive or not, or the same term or not: if you've succeeded to the presidency & served more than 2 years of a term or terms to which somebody else was elected, then you can only be elected once.

2. Not really, no. If it's come to the point where the Senate & the House have determined, each by a two-thirds vote, that the president is incapacitated, then the vice president continues as acting president indefinitely, & it might be up to the VP solely at that point to relinquish power back to the President. I suppose the president who had been declared unable to serve could continue repeating the 21-days cycle by issuing continuing to issue counter-declarations stating that he's indeed able to serve, but if Congress continues to side w/ the VP by two-thirds votes, then the VP will remain acting president indefinitely.

[alomas]

Thanks!

[President Johnson]

To the 22nd Amendment question: I found a "loophole" how you can serve for more than ten years combined. If someone succeeds twice without running for a full term the first time. For example if Ronald Reagan had really picked Gerald Ford as his running mate in 1980 and he (Reagan) had not survived the Hinkley shooting on March 1, 1981. If Gerald Ford then succeeded to the presidency again after serving from 1974 to 1977, he should have been eligible to run in 1984 and serve to January 1989.

[brucejoel99]

To the 22nd Amendment question: I found a "loophole" how you can serve for more than ten years combined. If someone succeeds twice without running for a full term the first time. For example if Ronald Reagan had really picked Gerald Ford as his running mate in 1980 and he (Reagan) had not survived the Hinkley shooting on March 1, 1981. If Gerald Ford then succeeded to the presidency again after serving from 1974 to 1977, he should have been eligible to run in 1984 and serve to January 1989.

Yeah, that's pretty much a potential example-in-action of how I described it above lol