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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first of all, a law (even if they could pass it) can’t override the constitutional rights of the chief executive.
Second of all, nothing they did pass could affect Trump since that would be an ex post facto law which is forbidden.
Third of all, they don’t have the votes.
This is a bill of attainment and is unconstitutional.
Has there ever been a cesspool scum more corrosive than this subhuman nitwit?
Schumer makes the scum of the Earth more palatable.
Gotta tee up something to put/keep Trump in the news negatively. Biden is using up all the oxygen.
Chuck better worry about the growing number of radical antisemites in his own party.
What’s it matter since Democrats don’t have a majority in the House?
Ehh Chucky, you have the power to regulate the inferior federal courts, NOT the Supreme Court.
The Democrat Party lead Coup has been underway since election night 2020 in the wee hours of the morning. Some of our highest ranking military, our VP, GOP House and Senate leaders all buried their heads in the sand. Whether out of fear, intimidation, corruption, or even to form an oligarchy of dictatorship ruling by a select group of elitist with other than any loyalties to our nation. Schumer thinks way too highly of himself as a self anointed king and has looked down his nose at We The People with his special glasses for far too long now.
It’s also Ex Post Facto. Why not kill two Constitutional birds with one stone Chucky Cheese?
Good, then we can indict Biden for treason for the open border and arming terrorist groups, and while we’re at it, let’s indict Schumer for threatening a Supreme court justice.
So Schumer now thinks that he is the Judicial branch. What a scum bag.
So...... Chuckie is admitting Trump has immunity. Oops.
Does Chuckles really think it would pass the House?
This is a PR stunt.
Why not abolish the Presidency and SCOTUS. They’re both a threat to demoncrazy.
“I will work with my colleagues on legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts not subject to immunity,” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Chucky the Schmucky Vichy Jew Boy is raving into lunacy because of the law of presidential immunity.
Such a new law , if attempted by Chucky and His blow boys would offend the Constitution of the United States and would be dead on arrival:
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3:
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed......”
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Why the U.S. Constitution Forbids Bills of Attainder
The U.S. Constitution forbids Bills of Attainder in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10. The ban extends to both the state and federal governments. The fact that the ban extends to the states shows just how important those who drafted the Constitution believed this issue to be. There are two main reasons why the U.S. Constitution Forbids Bills of Attainder:
The ban reinforces the separation of powers by forbidding the legislative branch of government from engaging in judicial or executive acts.
The ban supports the concept of due process, one of the rights attributed by the Constitution to every American citizen.
Each individual state’s constitution also forbids the issuance of a Bill of Attainder. For example, Bill of Attainder is forbidden by Wisconsin’s constitution in Article 1, Section 12, where it reads:
“No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.”
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https://legaldictionary.net/bill-of-attainder/
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President Trumo is laughuing at the TDR idiocy of Chuck the Schmuck.
put another slice of cheese on a raw hamburger you puke. A despicable human
Can this moron just go away? Between him and Maxine Waters, Democrats should be required to disallow anyone in their party to run for office after the age on 35.
thanks FRiend
I am adding that to my book list
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