Schumer moves to deny Trump immunity for election challenge after SCOTUS ruling

[mystery-ak]

Schumer moves to deny Trump immunity for election challenge after SCOTUS ruling

The immediate implications of the Supreme Court ruling for Trump's cases remain somewhat unclear, however, as the official status of Trump's election challenges has yet to be determined.
By Ben Whedon

Published: July 8, 2024 5:35pm

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday announced that his conference would push legislation to ensure former President Donald Trump would not enjoy immunity for his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.

The Supreme Court this month ruled that the president enjoys broad immunity for his official acts while in office, but not his unofficial acts. The ruling came as part of special counsel Jack Smith's D.C. election case. Smith has charged Trump in that case with four counts related to the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol, including conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

“I will work with my colleagues on legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts not subject to immunity,” Schumer said Monday, according to The Hill. “We’re doing this because we believe that in America no president should be free to overturn an election against the will of the people, no matter what the conservative justices may believe.”

The immediate implications of the Supreme Court ruling for Trump's cases remain somewhat unclear, however, as the official status of Trump's election challenges has yet to be determined.

The former president, for his part, has contended that "the Supreme Court’s Brilliantly Written and Historic Decision ENDS all of Crooked Joe Biden’s Witch Hunts against me."

Democrats, meanwhile, have contended that the justices afforded Trump unduly broad immunity and decided the matter wrongly.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Good luck with getting that through the MAGA House of Reps, Chuckles.

[mystery-ak]

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
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Democrats are pushing legislation to reverse the presidential immunity decision. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4760638-schumer-trump-immunity/
 The move is more politically than legally compelling. The decision is based on constitutional law and simply declaring whole areas "unofficial" will not negate the ruling.

[PeteS in CA]

This sounds like a Bill of Attainder, which is forbidden by the USC.

[Bigun]

This sounds like a Bill of Attainder, which is forbidden by the USC.

Sounds like Chuck ain't very smart!

[Wingnut]

He never was. 

[libertybele]

Good luck with getting that through the MAGA House of Reps, Chuckles.

 

[Hoodat]

Schumer says, 'F' the Constitution!'

[mystery-ak]

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Schumer's Goal of Nixing Immunity 'Unconstitutional'
 By Nicole Wells    |   Tuesday, 09 July 2024 08:15 PM EDT

Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's effort to strip former President Donald Trump of presidential immunity — recently granted by the Supreme Court — is, in a word, "unconstitutional."

"It's just as unconstitutional as when southern senators tried to legislatively overrule Brown v. Board of Education and other liberal decisions that they disapproved of," Dershowitz said during an appearance on Newsmax's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

"Now the Democrats are playing the game," he said. "The decision about what's an official act is constitutional in nature. It grows out of Article II of the Constitution and Congress has no authority to limit the constitutional immunity, just like the president would have no authority to limit the constitutional immunity of senators. Remember, senators and congressmen have limited, but serious, immunity, as does the judiciary. These are matters of constitutional law, and what we're hearing now is that Schumer is trying to really use the legislative process to undo the Constitution."

Dershowitz said the Democrat Senate leader is "listening to progressive law professors like Professor Laurence Tribe," who has "really become part of the political effort to manipulate the Supreme Court to make it come out its way."

"Tribe actually favors court packing, and other radical progressives favor really undoing the Supreme Court because they don't like it," he said. "They liked the Supreme Court back in the day, and they tried to prevent legislative efforts to somehow diminish the power of the court. But now that they don't like the court, they're part of the problem, and I think that we, the American public, have to stand by the power of the Supreme Court to make decisions under the Constitution.

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[GtHawk]

So Schmucky is violating the oath he took to Support and defend the Constitution? Why am I not surprised! Why is it almost/all democrats are oath breakers who have no qualms in violating our God given rights?