Posted on 07/09/2024 3:49:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a new plan to ensure Donald Trump spends the rest of his days in prison. Amid the battle over Joe Biden's senility among Democrats, Schumer moved to a different topic, pledging to legislatively declare Trump's actions surrounding January 6th as "unofficial."
That comes after the Supreme Court delivered a mixed opinion on the matter in late June, stating that "official" acts are indeed subject to presidential immunity while "unofficial" acts are not. That set up a long legal battle whereby the special counsel prosecuting Trump must litigate each action to determine what category they fall under.
Naturally, Democrats were not pleased because the development all but ensured the former president would not go to trial before Election Day. With the other cases against Trump facing similar delays, their desired knock-out blow had been thwarted.
Schumer believes he has a plan to get around that and expedite matters. Taking the Senate floor on Monday, the majority leader announced that he wants to reclassify all of Trump's actions leading up to January 6th as "unofficial" acts, bypassing the lengthy court battles that have been set up.
I have no idea what constitutional power Schumer believes he has that would allow such a gambit to even begin to pass muster. Separation of powers exists, and the legislature has never been able to dictate what qualifies as an official act of the presidency. If it could, then there would be no actual official acts because any hostile Congress could arbitrarily decide on a whim to reverse any such qualification.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Ol' "Three Bites"* is at it again.
*Three bites at the Clinton impeachment apple, and he said "Nay" on every one of them.
New laws cannot reach into the past behaviors of anyone to cause an arrest.
Ex post facto prohibits legislatures from passing laws which retroactively criminalize behavior.
Seems to me that SCOTUS has the final say regarding what’s “official” what’s “unofficial.
Congress isn’t be a kangaroo court. They can’t decide legal issues
Reagan was relatively precise: 1,000 years...
We are already into year 4, so there are at last 1,000-4 years left...
Doesn't matter... The American serfs are already totally accustomed to their chains...
As a constitutional attorney Chuck Schumer makes a good shoebox.
Since when are legislators allowed to rule on a case? I thought that’s what a Judge does…. 🤔
Wish we had a plan to throw all these homegrown fascists’ in jail.
Yeah, I hear you, and I am half expecting it, m’self.
These POS sure know how to play hard!!! And our DC compromised POS Reps are worthless!! We must no if our buts we must replace the whole damn RINO SWAMP CREATURES with MAGA folk! Hey if the UK can do it we can do it too! They threw out all the conservative lazy bums and replaced them with communists ( they are so screwed) so we TOO can throw all our backstabbing RINOs out the door to the street and replace them with good Americans who love their country with MAGA folk!
You nailed it!
Trump won’t be going to jail.
Merchan will give Trump probation and “head for the hills.”
Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder with no chance of surviving a legal challenge.
Anyone who doubts that Schumer is an enemy of the Republic after this is either a stupid fool or a domestic enemy.
If Schumer’s bill of attainer is made law, the corrupt doj under garland will do what it can to arrest Trump, pre-trial. They will find a judge who will deny bail. The supremes’ decision not withstanding.
Sounds like a tactic to get the country talking about something other than biden
Chuckie should be under charges for threatening SCOTUS judges.
Schumer is more obsessed with Trump than the jew haters who scream “Kill all the jews” all over this country
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