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It's a non-starter.
You need at minimum three-quarters of states for an amendment, and that's if you take the constitutional convention route. Even if you got every Republican-majority state onboard, which I very much doubt -- I think that there are a very considerable number of Republican politicians who are glad that Trump has managed to pull in a majority and are happy to maybe use some of his tactics but are also more than happy to see him ride off into the sunset and let them run things -- that's still not going to be enough.
Also, I don't know if ratification is just the upper house (almost all states have a bicameral legislature) or both or if it varies by state, but if it's both, that's an even higher bar.
kagis
Sounds like it's both.
https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/amending-the-us-constitution
So you have to get a majority of legislators in both legislative houses in a three-quarters supermajority of states. That's a pretty high bar.
How many other things is he not allowed to do, but is doing anyway with permission (either tacit or direct) from congress and the courts? You think this will stop him?
Words on a piece of paper only have power if people uphold them. No one's upholding them.
What's stopping him making an executive order claiming he can do it, use that as an excuse to run a clearly illegal campaign, use his control of the FEC to win and dare anyone to do smth about it?
Executive orders can't direclty contradict existing laws. They are utilized in "legal gray areas". If it were that simple, Trump would simply pass an executive order that it's legal for him to assassinate all members of any opposing political party and wipe every non-republican off the face of the earth, literally.
His executive orders already contradict existing laws? The constitution is the law of the land, and he has no authority to override the legislature, yet... Has. And then when judges have told him to stop. He hasn't. You can forget anything that's written at this point. It's all going to come down to bloodshed or dictatorship. And most of the population is fine with a dictatorship it appears.
All well and good, but he now has the military under his thumb and firmly planted up his ass. There’s no one left that has the authority to tell him he can’t.