‘The View’ Co-Host Asks Supreme Court Justice If Trump Can Serve Third Term

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor about the potential for President Donald Trump to run for a third term during a Tuesday appearance on “The View.”

Griffin suggested that Republicans would support Trump if he attempted to run for a third term, despite the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbidding a president from serving more than two terms. Sotomayor said that a limited two-year term is not “settled law” because no president has ever challenged that amendment.

“There has been talk that Donald Trump might run for a third term in office. It is my personal belief that if he did, the Republican Party would likely support him. I want to ask obviously, the 22nd Amendment prohibits somebody from seeking a third term in office. Do you believe the 22nd Amendment is settled law?” Griffin asked.

“The Constitution is settled law. No one has tried to challenge that. Until somebody tries, you don’t know. It’s not settled because we don’t have a court case about that issue. But, it is in the Constitution and one should understand that there’s nothing that is the greater law in the United States than the Constitution of the United States,” Sotomayor said.

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Trump has not rejected the idea of possibly running for a third term and told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in March that he is “not joking” about the possibility.

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go. You know, it’s very early in the administration … I’m not joking.”