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WASHINGTON (TND) — Comedian Rosie O’Donnell tore into the Supreme Court on Monday following its presidential immunity ruling in a case involving former President Donald Trump. The high court ruled Monday former presidents retain some immunity from prosecution after leaving office. The decision has significant implications on Trump’s election interference case stemming back to the events of January 6, 2021. Taking on TikTok, O’Donnell claimed the ruling allows a president to hire a mercenary to kill "anyone." “Although ‘no one is above the law’ is the foundation of this nation, apparently a president is above the law,” she said. “He...

A historic Supreme Court ruling is not stopping Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) from trying to imprison President Trump. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Supreme Court last week ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in favor of Trump, asserting that presidents are immune from criminal liability involving official acts during their tenure. The case Trump v. United States arose from narcissistic Special Counsel Jack Smith’s corrupt indictment against Trump, who is falsely accusing the 45th President of conspiring to throw out the 2020 presidential election results. The garbage charges Smith has levied include spreading “claims” of election fraud and...

Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled. In an unpublished opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity, a judicial doctrine that shields government officials from civil suits in cases where the rights they allegedly violated were not clearly established by prior case law. The doctrine protects a wide variety of abusive officials from legal consequences and makes it harder for victims to hold them accountable. Citing previous rulings holding that handcuffing a complaint child surrounded by adults constituted excessive force,...

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...

Following the Supreme Court's landmark decision on presidential immunity, former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday asked the judge overseeing his classified documents case to delay the proceedings and reconsider two motions to dismiss the case in light of this week's immunity ruling. Trump's lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to pause all the proceedings in the documents case -- other than a pending ruling regarding the special counsel's request for a gag order -- so that she can determine whether Trump's alleged conduct in the case is "official or unofficial." In a blockbuster decision Monday, the Supreme Court...

Friday afternoon on The Five, Bob Beckel tore into Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for an online ad he released this week that uses the IRS scandal to equate President Obama with Richard Nixon. Beckel called it “one of the cheapest ads I’ve seen” and said to McConnell, “you ought to be ashamed of yourself!” “To politicize this thing before you have the hearings,” Beckel went on, “and to go on the air with that kind ad, that’s a muckraking, disgraceful, disgusting ad, and it’s typical of a guy from the bourbon state.” To protestations from his co-hosts, Beckel said “in...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Donald Trump v. United States — in which a majority of the justices found that presidents are immune from prosecution for many actions taken during their presidency — is a legal earthquake. One way to see what a huge difference this new ruling will have is to look back at Watergate to see what behavior the Supreme Court excused for all presidents. I wrote about ex-President Trump’s ongoing criminal exposure in my new book “Corporatocracy.” I worried in that book that Trump would not be held accountable by the courts. As it turns out,...

John Yoo on Life, Liberty and Levin. “The charges regardless of whether President Trump has immunity, the charges that Jack Smith has brought are all going to be tossed out.”

Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Friday requested a months-long delay in his classified documents case in Florida, citing the Supreme Court's recent ruling regarding presidential immunity. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that presidents have presidential immunity for some "official acts," but not for unofficial ones. However, the high court did not specifically state what constitutes official versus unofficial acts. Trump's team told U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon that his decision to remove the classified documents out of the Oval Office and into his Mar-a-Lago resort should constitute an "official act," according to Politico. But special counsel...

Justice Sotomayor’s reaction to the SCOTUS immunity decision reveals a disturbing development in the nation’s ultimate Constitution-interpreting body. “You Americans, you are so naïve,” Joseph Brodsky, a Soviet dissident who was also a Nobel laureate in literature, is supposed to have said to students of his at Columbia sometime in the seventies or the eighties. “You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.” For people who take an idea like this seriously, the twelve hours following the release of the...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Blockbuster Supreme Court decisions, like overturning Roe v. Wade, and Monday's ruling on presidential immunity, have some questioning the state of the nation's highest court. Recent action by the justices is setting off new conversations about Supreme Court reform. "I think one of the things we see in the Trump vs. U.S. is that the court is really inserting themselves into the midst of this highly politicized issue," said Alison LaCroix, a University of Chicago law professor. Monday's decision allowing presidents to operate above the law left many constitutional law experts scratching their heads. "I don't remember...

Poor Ankush Khardori. The Trump-despising Politico senior writer is not taking the July 1 Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity well. Keep in mind that Khardori is the self-confessed charter member of the anti-Trump legal echo chamber who gushed over Nancy Pelosi describing the Trump indictments with such loving words as "exquisite" as well as "beautiful and intricate."As one could guess, Khardori's reaction on Tuesday to the Supreme Court's decision ignited his rage to heights of hyperbole as reflected in the title of his angry diatribe, "The Supreme Court Gave Trump a Stunning Gift — and Rewrote the Constitution."Khardori went...

Pour one out for the state prosecutors. District Attorneys Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis awoke this morning to a new legal landscape after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are presumptively immune for their official acts, and absolutely immune for those duties that are “exclusively and preclusively” their purview. Only unofficial acts are fair game. Where, then, does that leave the cases launched against Trump from New York and Fulton counties? In just as much trouble, we reckon, as the January 6 case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith at the District of Columbia that precipitated the brouhaha over immunity...

The Supreme Court Trump v. United States ruling that former presidents are entitled to some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution has significant implications for the ongoing legal battles surrounding Donald Trump. This ruling, widely perceived as a victory for Trump, has nuanced elements that warrant closer scrutiny, particularly in the comments made by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.The Court’s decision confirmed that presidents are protected from prosecution for official actions extending to the "outer perimeter" of their office, while unofficial conduct remains vulnerable to legal scrutiny. This distinction is crucial, as it provides a pathway for prosecutors to refocus their...

President Joe Biden was roundly mocked after he debuted his new spray tan during his remarks about the Supreme Court’s decision on Donald Trump‘s immunity case. However, viewers noticed more than Biden’s bizarre look; they also noticed that he read “end of the quote” during another battle with the teleprompter. “Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. She hears what she said. She said that in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law with fear for our democracy. I dissent.” “End of quote.” But Biden’s spray-tanned look was a topic of conversation on social media. Following...

President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States.While we have often discussed false constitutional claims by the President as well as other false statements, an address of this kind is particularly concerning in misleading citizens on the meaning of one of the most important decisions in history.As I have previously written, I am not someone who has favored expansive presidential powers. As...

John Dean, former White House counsel for the Nixon administration, said he believes former President Nixon “would have survived” the Watergate scandal if the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling issued Monday, which largely shields former presidents from criminal prosecution for actions in office, existed at the time. Asked what would’ve happened with Nixon if the immunity ruling was in place during the fallout from Watergate, Dean pointed to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who split from the other conservative justices on a portion of the majority opinion regarding the use of president’s official acts as evidence in criminal prosecution against a former...

Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday they would not oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay the sentencing in his hush money trial as he seeks to have the conviction overturned following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to presidents. In a letter filed with the New York court, prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said they would be open to a two-week delay in the July 11 sentencing in order to file a response to Trump’s motions. “Although we do believe the case to be without merit, we do not oppose his request” to delay the sentencing...

Oh my. Liberals haven't thought this through at all. There is a flood of limp wristed hand wringing transpiring among liberal circles following the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity. They should be grateful instead, but they are short sighted and lacking in memory. Let's have a look at the histrionics from a couple of left-wing Biden sycophants. First, the ever-hyperbolic Elie Mystal. Well, yes. It's been done. Barack Obama killed four Americans in drone strikes. No indictment, no trial, no jury of their peers. Just BOOM. On Wednesday, the Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time that four Americans...