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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:: and sent it back to the lower courts ::
This is where Chucky is foiled...again.
Often, SCOTUS will send such things back to Congress to Re-write things to make them Constitutional.
No such language this time..
It is entirely within the Third Branch; the Courts only.
Sure sounds that way to me.
Congress regulates the Supreme Court?? It confirm judges....but that’s it.
Both — ex post facto (you can’t punish someone for doing something that was legal at the time) and bill of attainder (laws need to be directed at the act, not at the person).
This sounds like Schumer is interfering with the legitimate functioning of government. It’s clearly an insurrection and everybody who agrees with him is guilty of insurrection too. Round them up!
The Supreme Court didn’t grant Trump immunity, he always had since he was President.
Just like everyone else who was president .
They forget...Gore vs Bush was settled by the Supreme Court. After hearing Gore say “Count Every Vote” a bazillion times...the court said...we did...and Bush won.
AND Another 20 million dollars and 20 million votes for Trump.
These azz wipes love to throw around how they’re going to save democracy, and how Trump is such a threat to democracy yet they do some of the most undemocratic unconstitutional things imaginable.
These DB’s are dangerous, And is why this country teters in the balance as a republic!!
I despise Schmuckster and his ilk!!!
Not that Schumer is a sleazy, two faced, slithering reptile of a crooked grifting politician. Not that.
Law and Order SVU season 23, Episode 10, Chief McGrath: “You’re making the mistake of thinking we’re talking about humans. We’re not. They’re politicians.”
I wonder how he’d act if the R’s tried to do something this evil and wrong to him?
And this is another example of why Americans hate having communist agents in our government
He thinks the infiltrated Fib should be the final authority.
The court didn’t “grant” anything.
Nothing but red meat for his insane supporters. The desperation is thick.
Laws are of no consequence to Democrats. It should be obvious by now that they will do anything, break any law, ignore the Constitution in order to win.
Such an effort is UnConstitutional.
And the feckless GOP lets them get away with it...i’m sure Jim Jordan will have a strongly worded letter ready to protest this move!!!
Right, that’s it, a Bill of Attainder, that’s what it’s called, that’s what this would be. So, um, UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Schumer’s glutus maximus should be sitting on a cot in a prison cell. Rotten pig.
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