Posted on 08/01/2024 10:58:49 AM PDT by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will introduce legislation Thursday reaffirming that presidents do not have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month.
Schumer’s No Kings Act would attempt to invalidate the decision by declaring that presidents are not immune from criminal law and clarifying that Congress, not the Supreme Court, determines to whom federal criminal law is applied.
The court’s conservative majority decided July 1 that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken within their official duties — a decision that threw into doubt the Justice Department’s case against Republican former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Schumer, of New York, said that Congress has an obligation and the constitutional authority to check the Supreme Court on its decision.
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That’s being kind.
That would seem an obvious option to me.
I gotta leave this one alone or I’ll get kicked off :)
Geez...I joined when I was 31 and 25 years later my temper isn’t much better.
Maybe in my 60s it will be :)
Trump has to win this thing.
I’ve always said “we can weather 4 years” of an insane leftist president and survive as a country.
I dont think that anymore.
There’s evil then there’s Schumer/Pelosi level evil that can’t be overstated.
They lost all humanity eons ago. They are psychopaths with way too much power. They really belong in prison or a serious mental asylum.
Oh, and they are freakin’ weird.
I missed where SCOTUS ruled a president had immunity for criminal acts. The actual ruling on when the president had absolute immunity was rather narrow and based on what is stated in the Constitution.
And on the side
He can pound sand as far as I’m concerned.
I guess it’s just a coincidence that Schumer wants to take the immunity issue away from the Supreme Court and give all control of it to the group he is a member of.
I guess that the members of Congress will retain their ‘immunity’ regardless to what they are trying to force on the Executive Branch.
Isn’t it weird how Democrats propose laws that they know will never pass?
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