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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Schumer trying to change the headlines...
One of these days Chucky’s going to reap the whirlwind and it won’t be pretty.
If only congresscritters, especially the ones like this slimeball, could face expulsion for knowingly passing unconstitutional legislation. This is a de facto bill of attainder on its face.
Oooohhhh....they soooo want President Trump back in the news....
Facially unconstitutional on multiple grounds, including separation of powers, and also based on the proposed law’s ex post facto status.
Political noise to foment outrage and distract from the Democrats’ sinking Presidential ship.
The Supreme Court did not grant Trump immunity. They simply showed where The Constitution extended it.
How would this not be ex post facto law. Unconstitutional on its face.
Schmuck is smart enough to know that ex post facto laws are Constitutionally prohibited. The Demoncrat base this garbage is aimed at will eat it up.
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”
I am not a lawyer but I am quite certain grabbing a judicial power (to decide whether a case meets the requirement of the law) and making it a legislative one is not what is meant by “To regulate the courts.”
It would take an amendment to the Constitution to take away the immunity of any and all presidents.
“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.
The man is indeed an idiot writ large. That is not what the decision read at all.
The corrupt commie pig is scared to death of losing his yob mahn. FUCHUCK.
My gawd, the audacity of people like him. Their criminal endeavors know no bounds......
Facially unconstitutional on multiple grounds, including separation of powers, and also based on the proposed law’s ex post facto status.
Political noise to foment outrage and distract from the Democrats’ sinking Presidential ship.
If it is a bill of attainder, how could it not be next term?
IMHO, yes. However, when have they actually respected the constitution.
What part of the constitutional immunity does he not understand? That’s like passing a law saying Trump doesn’t have free speech.
Nothing more than a publicity stunt by a Democrat trying to change the subject.
Sounds like chuckie needs a talking to.
Shmucer is scuh an alohsse.
Schumer is slime.
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