I don't demonize Republicans. I have conservative friends and family. I don't think the majority of them are any less human than I. Trump has publicly said he is "not joking" about the possibility of seeking a third term and told NBC News there are "methods" to do so outside of amending the Constitution. In October 2025, he told reporters on Air Force One that he would "love to do it." In early May 2026, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) questioned a panel of federal judicial nominees appointed by Trump about the 22nd Amendment. Coons specifically asked John George Edward Marck, a nominee for the Southern District of Texas, if President Trump is eligible to run for a third term. Marck declined to give a definitive "no." He characterized the question as a "hypothetical," stating, "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything depending on what the situation is, this strikes me as more of a hypothetical." When pressed further on the plain language of the Constitution, Marck responded that he "would have to review the wording of it." Coons then asked the other nominees on the panel to weigh in, and they remained silent. That's a plain example of Republicans who claim to be servants of the law refusing to acknowledge the existence of a 75-year-old well-known Constitutional amendment.