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The late Justice Antonin Scalia famously said that Congress does not "hide elephants in mouseholes." His point was that courts are skeptical of using minor provisions in a statute to achieve sweeping new legal changes.

The challenge of stuffing an elephant into a mousehole came to mind this week after President Donald Trump said that he is "not joking" about considering a third term and that experts told him it is possible under the Constitution.

One often has to take such moments with a heavy dose of skepticism from a president who clearly relished handing snake-in-a-can soundbites to the media just to watch the resulting screams. If so, he was not disappointed. The media went into renewed vapors as commentators pronounced, yet again, the death of democracy.

TRUMP QUIPS HE'D ‘LOVE’ TO RUN AGAINST OBAMA IN HYPOTHETICAL THIRD-TERM PRESIDENCY

However, given the president's statement, it is important to be clear about the basis for this theory, which has long been something of a parlor........

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