Raskin on SCOTUS decision to take up Trump immunity claim: ‘We don’t have a king here’

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Wednesday will consider former President Trump’s argument that he cannot be prosecuted in connection with his actions surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot because he was president at the time. condemned the Supreme Court’s decision.

“This clearly should not have been brought up and should have been left untouched by the D.C. Circuit’s decision.” Ruskin said on Sunday: He spoke in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

“There is no king here. We started a revolution against the king, and the constitution says: [the] The main job of the president is to take care of [that] The law is faithfully enforced and not faithfully violated for personal gain,” he added.

A lower court has ruled that President Trump does not have immunity, and the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case in April. The move will further delay Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

Raskin blamed the move on three Supreme Court justices nominated by President Trump and other justices nominated by Republicans.

“This is a court driven by both Trump and Bush, and neither was elected by popular vote,” he said. “So we have a Supreme Court that represents the minority presidential choice, and they worked very hard to overturn a series of precedents that America has come to take for granted, like Roe v. Wade. I am.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) also criticized the decision Sunday, calling it a “disappointment.”

“Any delay in considering this important issue, this timely issue, will delay resolution of these cases by at least several months,” Durbin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I think that was unfortunate. I think courts have acted quickly in the past when they recognized that the president’s schedule was in jeopardy. And I think what they did was I’m really worried,” he added.

The Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision on Monday, but some legal analysts predict this will be the court’s take on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to exclude Trump from voting on 14th Amendment grounds. are doing. In oral arguments so far, the justices have expressed skepticism about Mr. Trump’s efforts to block the vote.