When can the president appoint people without approval by anyone else? When can the president appoint people without approval by anyone else?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served four terms. He died in his forth term serving a total of 12 years. He was the only President to do so. Most Presidents had followed George Washington's example and only served up to two terms. After Roosevelt, Congressed passed the law prohibiting a president from running in a third term.
The same reason anyone else did; to become president.
A person who has served at least half of a U. S. presidential term to which he/she was not elected may be elected U. S. President no more than once. Anyone else who is qualified to be U. S. President may be elected no more than twice.
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The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits anyone from being elected U.S. President more than twice, and it prohibits anyone who has served as President or Acting President for at least two years of a term to which someone else was elected President from being elected U.S. President more than once. For example, if Gerald Ford had won the Election of 1976, he would have been ineligible to run again because he served as President more than two years of the second term to which Richard Nixon was elected President.
Rey Mysterio
The current president seemed to not need anyone else.
The 22nd amendment says that no one can be elected President more than twice, and anyone who has served more than 2 years of someone else's term as President can only be elected to one full term.
His first and only accomplishment is being able to do nothing longer than anyone else.
They can be charged with anything anyone else can be charged with. Legally speaking, they are in no way above the law.