Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said President Biden should “pray” for presidential immunity, saying his border policies have opened the door for violent illegal immigrants to commit rape and murder against Americans.
“Joe Biden better pray for presidential immunity because he paroled Laken Riley’s murderer. [of] “I believe that lack of competence would make him subject to not only litigation but criminal prosecution if he did not have presidential immunity,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Graham’s comments came amid a discussion of growing Democratic criticism of the Supreme Court, including Biden’s comments earlier this month that “the Supreme Court has never been more hung in the balance than it is today,” and the possibility that the Senate could impose ethics rules on the court.
Republican senators argued that Democrats are attacking the Supreme Court to protect President Biden’s record in office, including immigration policies that have led to more than 7 million illegal immigrants crossing the border.
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“Our border is collapsing. There’s war in Ukraine. The Middle East is on fire. And when it comes to law enforcement, Joe Biden has gone beyond reckless. He’s given parole to a million people on the basis of a restrictive parole law,” Graham said.
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Laken Riley poses for a photo posted to Facebook after the nursing student was found dead near a lake on the University of Georgia campus on Feb. 22. An illegal immigrant has been charged with murder. (Laken Riley/Facebook)
Graham cited the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was found beaten to death after jogging on the University of Georgia campus in February. Authorities said the Augusta University student died of blunt force trauma to the head during an encounter with undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra.
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President Biden speaks at the Abbots Creek Community Center during an economic policy promotion event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on January 18, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“The killer of Laken Riley was released on parole because we didn’t have capacity in El Paso. He was released under parole law because we were at capacity. There’s nothing in the law that says you can release someone because we’re at capacity. And then he killed this woman. And then again. All these women that have been raped and murdered have one thing in common. The people that killed them, raped them, murdered them were in our custody and I believe they were released illegally,” he continued, suggesting Biden could be prosecuted over his border policy.
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Presidential immunity has become a hot topic this election cycle as former President Trump faces a slew of lawsuits ahead of the 2024 election, and the Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion on whether presidential immunity constitutes presidential immunity. Trump is exonerated He will be immune from prosecution in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, which is currently indefinitely postponed.
