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[quote=takoma]The article [url]http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66096.html[/url] claims that Bill Clinton could legally run for VP. The claim is that Amendment 22 only makes him ineligible to be [i]elected[/i] president, but allows him to be [i]elevated[/i] to the presidency,  Amendment 12 says "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."  The authors claim that Clinton still satisfies the eligibility requirement, and therefore could run as VP, and should the occasion arise, become president again.

Do you think SCOTUS would read the amendments that way, or say that 22 makes him ineligible to be pres, and therefore 12 makes him ineligible to be VP?  My guess is that they would read that as the clear intent of 22, and therefore bar him from becoming VP.  But before that happened, I would think that the very possibility that it [i]might[/i] happen would discourage Obama from making such a move.[/quote]

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