{"id":150897,"date":"2026-05-11T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/11\/matt-damons-beer-braised-brett-kavanaugh-finds-a-constitutional-loophole-for-trumps-third-term\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:57:26","slug":"matt-damons-beer-braised-brett-kavanaugh-finds-a-constitutional-loophole-for-trumps-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/11\/matt-damons-beer-braised-brett-kavanaugh-finds-a-constitutional-loophole-for-trumps-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon\u2019s Beer-Braised Brett Kavanaugh Finds A Constitutional Loophole For Trump\u2019s Third Term"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few things capture the current state of constitutional discourse quite like Matt Damon\u2019s Saturday Night Live imagining of Brett Kavanaugh, drunk after ordering a \u201c6-3 decision\u201d (i.e., six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo), solemnly explaining that Donald Trump can serve a third term because he found the \u201coriginal Constitution\u201d and wrote \u201cPSYCH\u201d at the end of it \u2014 presumably in Sharpie, right next to the 22nd Amendment. It\u2019s the kind of joke that works because it feels only marginally more ridiculous than the actual legal theories currently floating around American politics.<\/p>\n

The sketch immediately went viral online, with entertainment outlets and viewers alike latching onto the sheer dumb elegance of the bit: Trump allegedly discovering a constitutional loophole by vandalizing America\u2019s founding document. The cold open was less \u201cpolitical satire\u201d and more \u201clightly fictionalized documentary.\u201d More than anything else, though, the sketch landed because it said the quiet part out loud: a growing number of Americans genuinely believe this Supreme Court could eventually try to find a way to let Trump run for a third term.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is hardly the first time Damon\u2019s Kavanaugh has become instant SNL canon. His original 2018 appearance screaming about beer and calendars during the confirmation hearings remains one of the show\u2019s most memorable political cold opens. The \u201cpsych Constitution\u201d gag may be the purest distillation yet of the Court\u2019s current public image: less solemn guardians of precedent, more guys workshopping constitutional interpretation after a whisky drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, and a cider drink.<\/p>\n

Check out the sketch below:<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Matt Damon\u2019s Beer-Braised Brett Kavanaugh Finds A Constitutional Loophole For Trump\u2019s Third Term<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Few things capture the current state of constitutional discourse quite like Matt Damon\u2019s Saturday Night Live imagining of Brett Kavanaugh, drunk after ordering a \u201c6-3 decision\u201d (i.e., six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo), solemnly explaining that Donald Trump can serve a third term because he found the \u201coriginal Constitution\u201d and wrote \u201cPSYCH\u201d at the end of it \u2014 presumably in Sharpie, right next to the 22nd Amendment. It\u2019s the kind of joke that works because it feels only marginally more ridiculous than the actual legal theories currently floating around American politics.<\/p>\n

The sketch immediately went viral online, with entertainment outlets and viewers alike latching onto the sheer dumb elegance of the bit: Trump allegedly discovering a constitutional loophole by vandalizing America\u2019s founding document. The cold open was less \u201cpolitical satire\u201d and more \u201clightly fictionalized documentary.\u201d More than anything else, though, the sketch landed because it said the quiet part out loud: a growing number of Americans genuinely believe this Supreme Court could eventually try to find a way to let Trump run for a third term.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is hardly the first time Damon\u2019s Kavanaugh has become instant SNL canon. His original 2018 appearance screaming about beer and calendars during the confirmation hearings remains one of the show\u2019s most memorable political cold opens. The \u201cpsych Constitution\u201d gag may be the purest distillation yet of the Court\u2019s current public image: less solemn guardians of precedent, more guys workshopping constitutional interpretation after a whisky drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, and a cider drink.<\/p>\n

Check out the sketch below:<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Matt Damon\u2019s Beer-Braised Brett Kavanaugh Finds A Constitutional Loophole For Trump\u2019s Third Term<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few things capture the current state of constitutional discourse quite like Matt Damon\u2019s Saturday Night Live imagining of Brett Kavanaugh, drunk after ordering a \u201c6-3 decision\u201d (i.e., six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo), solemnly explaining that Donald Trump can serve a third term because he found the \u201coriginal Constitution\u201d and wrote \u201cPSYCH\u201d at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-cTtOHQ.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}