Left Claims ‘President Can Now Assassinate You’ After SCOTUS Ruling
The claim: Left-wing extremists are essentially arguing that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling means the president can now order the assassination of Americans and political opponents. Ruling: False. The Supreme Court’s ruling does not give the president the power to commit crimes, and precedent dates back to former President Barack Obama. As Breitbart News reported, the […]
Trump lawyers move to overturn Manhattan conviction in light of Supreme Court immunity ruling
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to overturn his conviction in his Manhattan hush money trial using the Supreme Court’s recent immunity decision. The Supreme Court’s Monday immunity decision most directly affected Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment, but the former president’s team believes it equally applies to his hush money case as well, the New York […]
Trump seeks to set aside hush money verdict after immunity ruling: source
Former President Trump on Monday asked the hush money judge to vacate his recent conviction following the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along the ideological line that former presidents enjoy absolute immunity with respect to core constitutional powers and a presumption of immunity […]
Joe Biden on Supreme Court Immunity Ruling: ‘American People Must Decide’
President Joe Biden slammed the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling on Monday that presidents have limited immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed while in office. “No one is above the law, not even the president of the United States,” Biden said in a live address to the nation. “The Supreme Court’s decision today on […]
Johnson dismisses Democratic 'hyperbole' over immunity ruling: 'It's madness'
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, on Monday dismissed Democrats’ concerns about the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, calling their worries about the president’s future crimes “insane.” “Look, there’s all this exaggeration tonight… and all these fantastical hypotheses that they’ve made up. [that] “Future presidents will be assassins and other criminals,” Johnson said in an […]
Biden slams SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling, ignores questions about dropping out
In a speech Monday night, President Biden slammed the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity in the case Trump v. United States, saying the ruling means there are effectively no limits on what the president can do. The president spoke for less than five minutes — about four minutes and 40 seconds to be exact […]
Biden speaks on Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling
President Biden addressed the nation on Monday night following the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity in the case President Trump v. United States. The Supreme Court ruled that a former president was a major Immunity from prosecution It applies to official conduct done while in office, but not to unofficial conduct. In a 6-3 […]
Bill Barr scoffs at 'horror stories' about Supreme Court immunity ruling
Former Attorney General William Barr dismissed the “horror story” presented by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision on former President Trump’s immunity claim. “The example, in my opinion, that’s the most egregious and makes absolutely no sense is the notion that a president can use SEALs Team 6 […]
Bill Barr Reality Checks Trump Critics Following SCOTUS Ruling
Former US Attorney General Bill Barr has provided a reality check on criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision granting former President Donald Trump “absolute immunity” for his official duties while in office. Trump’s critics argued that the decision put the president above the law by giving him absolute power to carry out any illegal decisions […]
Justices claim immunity ruling allows presidents to poison staffers, have Navy SEALs kill political rivals
In dissents from the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, the court’s liberal justices suggested the majority opinion permitted a range of terrifying scenarios, such as a president ordering Navy SEALs to “assassinate” a political opponent or even poisoning a cabinet member. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that the president has substantive immunity […]