Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has announced plans to draft legislation that would allow former President Trump to be held accountable for his actions after the 2020 election.
Schumer said his proposed bill would classify Trump’s actions challenging the results of the 2020 election as “unofficial” and strip him of the immunity granted by a recent Supreme Court decision.
The ruling, handed down July 2, concluded that the president retains effective immunity from prosecution for acts committed while in office.
“American democracy is at a dangerous crossroads right now,” Schumer said recently. Remarks on the Senate floor. He called Trump’s actions an “act of election subversion.”
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President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer discuss before meeting at the White House.
“[The Supreme Court] “Former President Donald Trump falsely declared that he enjoyed broad immunity from criminal prosecution for acts he committed while in office.”
Schumer also compared Trump to former President Richard Nixon, arguing that the court agreed with Nixon’s iconic defense of journalist David Frost in 1977.
“If the president does it, it’s not illegal,” Schumer recalled.
“We all learned in grade school that America doesn’t have kings, but what these conservative judges have done is essentially put a crown on Donald Trump’s head,” he continued.
He further predicted that if Trump is elected, the Supreme Court will continue to make “catastrophic decisions” and that January 6, 2021, will mark the beginning of chaos in the United States.
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“Donald Trump and the MAGA right are opposed by the vast majority of Americans and will plunge our country into an abyss of extremism the likes of which America has never seen before.”
Schumer did not respond to a request for further comment.
Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, slammed Schumer’s announcement and said he, like other “Biden Democrats,” would do anything to “weaponize” the justice system against the Republican candidate.
“The unconstitutional undermining of the Supreme Court’s independence is just the latest demonstration of this corrupt insanity,” Hughes said.
“The Supreme Court correctly protected the power of all presidents, not just President Donald Trump, which is fundamental to the balance of power between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.”
The bill text could not yet be found on the official congressional website, but Schumer’s plan was preceded by bills introduced by other leading Democrats that were likely to address Trump’s actions while in office.
Representative Adam SchiffSenator George H. W. Bush, a Democrat who is currently a candidate for the Senate in California, has drafted a comprehensive bill for July 2023 called the Protecting Democracy Act.
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The 225-page bill addresses issues such as congressional oversight of presidential pardons, a focus on presidential “emoluments” and a section titled “Ensuring that no president is above the law.”
Another Democrat, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island lawmakers have previously drafted bills criticizing the Supreme Court.
While announcing the bill, he said he believes the courts are “in the hands of special interests, much like the Railroad Commission in the 1890s was taken over by railroad tycoons who got their way.”
