Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear when it comes to presidential term limits—regardless of what Donald Trump might say.
During an interview promoting Coney Barrett’s new book Listening to the Law, Fox News host Brett Baier sprung a question on the conservative justice about the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms in office.
Though he didn’t say why he was asking, presumably it was because President Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of running for a third term, despite the constitutional bar.
Baier seized on the topic as Coney Barrett was explaining that the Constitution’s “genius” is that it’s “written at varying levels of generality.” Some parts are very specific, such as the requirement that the president has to be