Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, announced plans Thursday to introduce new legislation to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent immunity rulings.
If passed, the bill would make it clear that Congress, not the Supreme Court, has the power to decide who federal criminal laws apply to, according to the proposed legislation. NBC News report.
Responding to a petition filed by Donald Trump’s lawyers, the Supreme Court ruled last month that the former president is entitled to “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts within the scope of his constitutional and exclusive powers. The court also ruled that Trump has “at least constructive immunity for all acts of official conduct.”
As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling, a federal lawsuit alleging that President Trump illegally kept classified documents after he left office (one of four lawsuits filed against him) was recently dismissed by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon, who ruled that the “appointment and funding” of Special Counsel Jack Smith was “unlawful.”
The judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit sparked outrage from President Trump’s Democratic opponents.
A few days after the ruling, Schumer wrote: X“We were taught in grade school that there are no kings in America, but what the MAGA judges have done is essentially put a crown on President Trump’s head.”
He announced that lawmakers are working on a bill that would classify Trump’s actions cited in the lawsuit as “unofficial conduct.” Supreme Court decisions have held that current and former presidents do not enjoy immunity for unofficial conduct, but have not defined what is and is not official conduct.
On Thursday, one month after the Supreme Court ruling, Schumer said he plans to introduce a “No Kings Act” to overturn the “disastrous immunity ruling” made by the “MAGA Supreme Court.”
“Our Founding Fathers made it clear that in America, no one should be king. Yet the MAGA Supreme Court has ignored centuries of precedent and installed Trump and subsequent presidents as kings above the law. That’s why I’m introducing the No King Act to crack down on this dangerous precedent,” Schumer said in the post. X.
On other social media post“This bill reaffirms that the president cannot escape legal responsibility and strips the Supreme Court of its power to hear appeals of presidential immunity,” he said.
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