Overview
- Alan Dershowitz met with President Trump in the Oval Office and gave him a draft titled Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?, which is slated for publication next year.
- Dershowitz told the Wall Street Journal the Constitution was "not clear" in certain scenarios and outlined a hypothetical in which Electoral College abstentions could push the choice to Congress.
- White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the country would be "lucky" to have Trump serve longer, while offering no indication of any plan to pursue a third term.
- Constitutional scholars criticized the theories as implausible or "absurd," noting that elector abstentions are rare and that the Twelfth and Twenty-Second Amendments foreclose such paths.
- Dershowitz said he does not think Trump will run for a third term, and both Trump and his chief of staff have acknowledged the constitutional limit despite donor enthusiasm and 2028-themed merchandise.