Gov. Maura Healey known as President Donald Trump’s feedback about looking for a 3rd time period in workplace “very disturbing and alarming” Monday, whereas Congressman Jake Auchincloss pointed to “silence from congressional Republicans” concerning the president’s remarks.
In an interview with NBC Information on Sunday, Trump mentioned he was “not joking” about the opportunity of looking for one other time period within the White Home. The twenty second Modification to the U.S. Structure units a two-term restrict for presidents.
“Lots of people need me to do it,” he mentioned. “However I imply, I principally inform them now we have a protracted technique to go, you realize, it is very early within the administration.” When requested if he had been offered with plans to get round constitutional time period limits, the twice-elected Trump mentioned, “There are strategies which you could possibly do it.”
The twenty second Modification gives that, “No individual shall be elected to the workplace of the President greater than twice.”
“It is very disturbing and alarming as anyone who practiced constitutional legislation, and I feel for anyone who understands the face of democracy and the way issues have labored on this nation,” Healey mentioned, when requested by a reporter concerning the feedback after an unrelated Monday morning occasion in Newton.
She continued that she is targeted on what she will be able to management as governor, equivalent to housing and vitality prices in Massachusetts.
On the similar Charles River Chamber occasion Monday morning, Congressman Jake Auchincloss additionally addressed Trump’s feedback to reporters.
“The factor to concentrate to isn’t Donald Trump claiming he’ll do one thing unconstitutional, as a result of that is a day that ends in ‘Y.’ The factor to concentrate to is the silence from congressional Republicans that, even when the president of the USA says one thing so blatantly unlawful, they may nonetheless refuse to face as much as him,” Auchincloss mentioned.
