Posted on 07/08/2024 4:49:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he and other Senate Democrats will work to advance legislation to strip former President Trump of the immunity he was granted under a recent Supreme Court ruling protecting a president’s official acts from criminal prosecution.
Schumer, invoking Congress’s powers to regulate the courts, said Democrats are working on legislation to classify Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election as “unofficial acts” so they do not merit immunity from criminal prosecution under the high court’s recent 6-3 decision.
“They incorrectly declared that former President Trump enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he took while in office. They incorrectly declared that all future presidents are entitled to a breathtaking level of immunity so long as their conduct is ostensibly carried out in their official capacity as president,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
Schumer said the court’s conservative justices had “effectively placed a crown on Donald Trump’s head,” putting him above the law and making him “in many ways untouchable.”
“I will work with my colleagues on legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts not subject to immunity,” he announced. “We’re doing this because we believe that in America no president should be free to overturn an election against the will of the people, no matter what the conservative justices may believe.”
Schumer said senators will keep on working on other proposals to “rein in the abuse of our federal judiciary.”
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FOAD Sucky.
Is there anyone out there in the webverse who estimates how much of our tax dollars the dems have wasted just to try and get President Trump? Also what percentage of the DOJ, FBI, other law enforcement and intel agencies are committed to get him. And why aren’t these wastes of tax dollars on dem whims considered campaign contributions?
democrats are why we cannot have nice things
It seems ok to the Dems when 'courts' grant stuff to Biden.
Payback it truly a bitch, ain't it!
indeed!
Every president was covered by immunity for official acts. Biden better hope he is covered for crimes committed while taking official actions.
Sorry sport, even if you could get it through the house, you can’t pass a law that overrides the constitution.
But, Morning Joe and the Hoe will build it up, along with Tapper, etc. And the lefty lemmings will bob their heads “yes”.
It had to be Russian collusion, voter suppression or whatever.
Ummmmmn.... Wasn’t this SCOTUS decision based on the Constitution, and NOT on laws?
Schumer, I’ll see your law and raise you one.
Menendez should be found guilty in a few days, Schumer should focus on removing him from the senate if he is so troubled by criminals.
No official act is overtly illegal. Taking bribes is not an official act or a fundamental job of the President, so Joe could still be prosecuted.
OTOH, giving a speech to rally supporters is a fundamental part of being a political leader. As is contesting elections that you suspect of fraud.
I was thinking Biden better hope he has immunity from destroying the country by allowing 20 million criminals from 150 countries to flood in to the US in violation of the constitution and his oath of office.
Hail Schumer!
Hail Victory!
Does the bill strip all presidents of immunity or just Trump? It makes a difference.
I don’t want Biden to have immunity for anything he (or rather his puppet masters) orders while “President”. The immunity ruling was not the win for our side that many here think it was.
IIRC. THE USSC judgement was that the Florida Supreme Court could not unilaterally change Florida's electoral process mid-way which is up to the State Legislature and not Florida Supremes. It stopped the last "chad counting". I could have it wrong, but I remember the USSC opined that Florida SC had no jurisdiction to interfere with the Constitutional right of State Legislatures to stipulate their own process. I believe that was the lawsuit by Gore.
How does such a bill get a vote in the house?
Well, he watched the Executive Branch ignore the USSC ... confident that the “opposition party” wouldn’t “oppose”.
The Florida Supreme Court couldn’t call it because it was a Federal Election and they’re a State Court. All I remember is that guy with the bulging eyeballs checking out a chad. The other thing I remember is one of the Supremes speaking about punching out the chads saying...What’s so hard about that.
If I remember my history, Gore asked to have certain districts recounted and lost. If he had asked for a recount of all districts he would have won. He mostly asked to have dem oriented districts recounted.
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