House Democrats Introduce Bill To Limit Presidential Power Carmine Sabia September 22, 2021
House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a team of her fellow Democrats have introduced legislation that would limit the power of the presidency.
The legislation, if passed, would limit the power of future presidents, in an apparent swipe at the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, MSN reported.
The bill, dubbed the Protecting Our Democracy Act, includes a number of tenets to prevent presidential abuses, restore checks and balances, strengthen accountability and transparency, and protect elections.
It is sponsored by nine House Democrats – all of whom chair committees – and is supported by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It also includes legislation offered by a number of other Democratic lawmakers.
The group mentioned the Trump administration in its description of the bill on its website, writing that the “aggrandizement” of presidential power “reached new heights” under the former president.“The Protecting Our Democracy Act (PODA) is a historic package of pro-democracy reforms to create or strengthen guardrails preventing the abuse of executive power, restore Congress as a meaningful check on executive authority, and reinvigorate Congress’s exercise of its own constitutional power. Protect Democracy strongly supports these vital reforms,” the website said.
“Without these important legislative measures, our democracy is at risk of backsliding into a more authoritarian form of government in which the president wields unchecked power — the very danger our constitutional system of checks and balances was designed to forestall,” it said.
Among the changes the legislation looks to tackle, it would limit the president’s pardon power, extend the deadline to prosecute former president and vice presidents for federal crimes that occurred before or during their time in the White House, enforce the Constitutional ban on a president enriching themselves, strengthen congressional subpoena power and reassert Congress’ power of the purse.
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