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.
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It wouldn’t be at all surprising if FedGov just decides to kill Trump or throw him in jail should he win. Or even if he doesn’t win.
I hope Trump picks Juliani for Atty Gen ... then we’ll see some folks in JAIL!
ex post facto, bill of attainer, and votes
Three reasons this is total bs.
LOL Ex post facto + the immunity stems from the powers necessary to the exercise of his official duties under the Constitution. Only SCOTUS can ultimately decide what is official or unofficial.
“As of right now, your actions were official and protected and you have immunity. However, in the near future, we will pass a law which will suddenly make your past actions unofficial, not protected, and — with immunity removed — we can throw you in jail for your past actions which, as I say, as of right now, were perfectly legal.”
Yeah. That’s our government.
I hope Schumer gets convicted for treason along with all those who twisted our country into knots using banana republic lawfare. We all know the right and proper punishment for those convicted of treason.
What a hateful son-of-a-bitch..
They set it up. It’s still CYA move.
Hell will come for these traitors.
Until AI and Elon Musk types invent a way to read my mind and put me in prison for my thoughts, I’m okay for now about Schumer, MSNBC and the rest.
Lord, how long will this evil be with us?
Once again the DemonKKKrat ignore the rulings of the SCOTUS, the Constitution the Rule of Law and write their own book. In effect, they have evolved into the New Confederacy. Hence, the name I give them: DemonKKKrats.
I think the point is to change the conversation to be about Trump and get everyone debating Schumer”s strawman.
Schumer is just trying to rally the TDS sickos into focusing on something other than Josef Stolen
Please add ex post impeachment to your list.
RE: Hell will come for these traitors.
Psalms 70:5
But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer;
O LORD, do not delay.
Schumer’s problem is that the fellow TDS sufferers are the ONLY group to whom this will appeal.
Schumer is a fool. He wanted to get rid of Netanyahu, and he wants to get rid of Trump.
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