Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said she plans to file articles of impeachment against an unnamed Supreme Court justice following Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
The only judge in American history to be impeached was Judge Samuel Chase in 1805. The Senate acquitted him.
“The Supreme Court has become engulfed in a corruption crisis that is out of control,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Posts About X.
“Today’s verdict is an attack on American democracy. It is the responsibility of Congress to protect the country from this authoritarian rule. I will introduce articles of impeachment when I return home,” she said, without revealing her target.
The Supreme Court has become embroiled in a corruption crisis that is out of control.
Today’s ruling is an attack on American democracy, and it is the responsibility of Congress to protect our nation from this authoritarian rule.
I intend to file articles of impeachment when I return home.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2024
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the president has limited immunity from criminal prosecution for acts performed while in office.
Going forward, “the case will likely be remanded and some or all of the charges the former president faces in federal court in Washington, D.C., related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will likely be dismissed,” Breitbart News’ Joel Pollack wrote.
The ruling affected former President Donald Trump, who celebrated it as a “big win” for democracy, and marks the latest good news for Trump and his reelection campaign.
Democrats and the Biden campaign roundly condemned the decision, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasting it as a “disgraceful decision by the Supreme Court” and Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accusing the court of “running wild.”
“Today’s ruling does not change the facts, but let us be clear about what happened on January 6th: Donald Trump, in a fit of rage after losing the 2020 election, incited a mob to try to overturn the results of a free and fair election,” a senior Biden campaign official said in a statement.
This case raises a question of enduring importance: When can a former president be prosecuted for official acts taken while in office? Our nation has never needed that answer before. But in addressing the question today, unlike the political branch and the public at large, we cannot afford to fixate solely or primarily on the emergency of the present. In a case such as this, a focus on “temporary results” could have significant implications for the separation of powers and our nation’s future.
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The president does not enjoy immunity from liability for informal acts, and not all of his actions are official. The president is not above the law. But Congress cannot criminalize the president’s actions in carrying out executive responsibilities under the Constitution. And the system of separation of powers designed by the Framers of the Constitution has always required a vigorous and independent executive branch.
Thus, the President cannot be prosecuted for the exercise of core Constitutional powers and, at a minimum, the President enjoys presumptive immunity from prosecution for all official acts — immunity that applies equally to all Oval Office officials, regardless of politics, policy, or party affiliation.
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