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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HEY upchuckyschlepter !!! IDGARPA what you say !!! So GFY, KMA, FOAD and take a bunch of your SCUMBAG buddies with you.
If this was anyone else you’d be silent...
Mr. Microphone has not been in the news often enough.
This is an example of the democrat’s “democracy” at its finest.
Chucky probably thinks that is some new brand denture adhesive.
I’m already getting sick of these (censored, censored) saying that the court “granted” or “gave” Trump immunity.
They merely confirmed something that was there from the start.
Schumer is why I have Jew, among other fatigues.
Actually, congress can limit what sort of things the SC is allowed to consider. For instance, congress can say that the SC is not allowed to rule on anything involving speeding tickets.
Chuckie Schemer’s world of dilusion ends in January
‘...immunity he was granted under a recent Supreme Court...” and there you have it. The dems position ....
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They can’t do it without Republicans.
However, it hasn’t stopped Biden in 3.5 years.
Election season may block the legislation.
Attacking the Institution itself...Now what would you call that?
Sounds like an unconstitutional bill of attainder to me.
I’m not a lawyer but it seems to me that Congress doesn’t have the authority to do this...particularly when past acts are concerned.
Just a dog and pony show to distract from Biden.
This jerk should focus on his state, not Trump. Anyway, it’s a toss up between Schiff and Schumer as to who should be droned first.
This is so stupid.
Any ruling by the chair in the Special Joint Session can be appealed to the floor, such a motion takes precedence over any other motion. Pence had zero authority independent of the floor.
With 535 individuals voting, one man, one vote, Members and Senators equal, it would have taken 268 votes to set aside at least 37 Biden Electors - and if you think that could have happened, there’s something wrong with you.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Nothing says “democracy” like ex post facto bills of attainder.
I’ll tell you, in one word, what the Demos fear more than anything else ... “RICO”. And RICO findings will raise the ire of the American people more than almost anything else.
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