Will He or Won’t He?

David Gergen : People believe that Trump is probably a lame duck, but no one is absolutely certain of it.

He says the longer he holds out the prospect of a third term, the more power he has over the Republican party .

Gergen says the Supreme Court could decide to legitimize that act if it were legitimized by John Roberts' report.

John Sutter : Is Trump a lame duck? Maybe, maybe, but maybe not.

He says he's skeptical that the Supreme Court would try to stop him from running for a third term.

Sutter says a Rolex Cosmograph Yacht Master' Ref. 6242 appears to have been an actual Rolex project which never came to fruition.

Plessy was a “flagrant violation of the Constitution .” What, exactly, is the limit to “judicial supremacy”? One effect of a conflict between the Trump administration and the courts could be to cause chaos in the administration of normal government functions.

The swing votes on the Court would see that there are three possible outcomes: They rule Trump can’t run and Trump abides by their ruling.

Punting would be functionally identical to # 3 , but might preserve for the Court the illusion that they possess some controlling authority. Punting is functionally identical.