Justice Barrett answers Fox News about possibility of a third Trump term

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00:00The 22nd Amendment says you can only run for office for two terms.

00:04True.

00:05You think that that's cut and dry.

00:07Fox anchor Brett Baer talks presidential term limits with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

00:14Well, that's, you know, that's what the amendment says, right?

00:18You know, after FDR had four terms, that's what that amendment says.

00:22Supporters of President Donald Trump and Trump himself have suggested that he might run again in 2028.

00:27If he does, the matter is almost certain to be decided by the Supreme Court.

00:33Baer seized the opportunity to ask the question after Coney Barrett explained the Constitution is written in varying levels of generality.

00:41So sometimes it's very specific.

00:43The president has to be at least 35 years old.

00:45But sometimes it's very general.

00:47We're protected from unreasonable searches and seizures.

00:49We have freedom of speech.

00:51And to have freedom of speech doesn't mean that you have freedom only to pass out pamphlets in a town square.

00:56I mean, it means that you have freedom to be on broadcast news.

01:00Coney Barrett appeared on the program to promote her new book, Listening to the Law.

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01:07For Straight Arrow News, I'm Diane Duenez.