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Schumer pushing bill to strip Trump of court-granted immunity
The Hill ^ | 7/08/24 | Alexander Bolton

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bill; court; fakenews; immunity; notcourtgranted; persecution; schmuckyschumer; schumer; senate; shortdropsuddenstop; tds
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Chuckles has nothing better to do. Let's go Brandon.


1 posted on 07/08/2024 4:49:20 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Why not just propose a Bill of Attainder?


2 posted on 07/08/2024 4:51:00 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Libloather

Seems Schumer has no problem skirting the Supreme Court. What other laws does he consider “not for me, but for thee”?


3 posted on 07/08/2024 4:51:34 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Libloather

What an idiot. Three branches. Chuckie has no leg to stand on.


4 posted on 07/08/2024 4:51:43 PM PDT by JayGalt (DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
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To: Libloather

Sorry sport, even if you could get it through the house, you can’t pass a law that overrides the constitution.


5 posted on 07/08/2024 4:51:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Libloather

The Schumer Democrat Crime Family trying to keep from being punished for their crimes.


6 posted on 07/08/2024 4:52:04 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Libloather

Someone needs to teach Chuck “raw hamburger” Schumer a lesson GOOD AND HARD!!!

FU Schumer, rot in hell you dirty POS.


7 posted on 07/08/2024 4:52:09 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Libloather

The democrats only do things for themselves not the country


8 posted on 07/08/2024 4:52:10 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

This is a bill of attainment and is unconstitutional.


9 posted on 07/08/2024 4:53:52 PM PDT by Salohcin
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To: Libloather
Here is a full list of the three co-equal branches of the US government:
10 posted on 07/08/2024 4:54:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Libloather

Wouldn’t this be ex post facto?


11 posted on 07/08/2024 4:54:05 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Libloather

WHAT in the hatch, e, double L is schumer SO AFRAID OF! eventually power always, ALWAYS switches hands...unless evil people try to stop it. like schumer.


12 posted on 07/08/2024 4:54:46 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Libloather

Ah - Schumer - another scam, false narrative. That isn’t what they ruled at all. The ruling was actually quite minimalist in its approach. They did not even make a specific ruling as to Trump - they simply declared the immunity exists, and sent it back to the lower courts for them have hearings on whether or not Trump’s actions were official or unofficial and whether or not the immunity applies to any specific actions.


13 posted on 07/08/2024 4:54:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Libloather

F SCOTUS

For our democracy.


14 posted on 07/08/2024 4:55:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's mone)
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To: Libloather

Schumer behind closed doors...Whatever we have to do, if it means criminally undermining, compromising and overthrowing Trump, or rewriting or creating new rules and laws, so be it!


15 posted on 07/08/2024 4:56:37 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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16 posted on 07/08/2024 4:56:38 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Libloather
what a bunch of bald face reprobate rogue criminal seditious traitorous liars.

SPIT.

17 posted on 07/08/2024 4:57:11 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961
these &:÷/*.’ are all in need of a serious military tribunal.
18 posted on 07/08/2024 4:58:28 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Vigilanteman

He just did.


19 posted on 07/08/2024 4:59:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Vigilanteman

Why not just propose a Bill of Attainder?

That’s what it would be...unless Chuck means to have it apply to Trump’s next term...in which case Chucky may have read the writing on the wall.


20 posted on 07/08/2024 4:59:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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