Democrats haven’t given up on the lawfare against Donald Trump.
The lawfare’s just moved to a different battlefield.
And Chuck Schumer hatched this sick plan to jail Donald Trump.
Schumer introduces legislation to strip Presidents of immunity from criminal prosecution
The Supreme Court gutted Jack Smith’s lawfare against Donald Trump with a ruling stating that the President possesses immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts in office.
This commonsense ruling – the President already owned immunity from civil lawsuits for duties that fell within the outer perimeter of official duties – meant the end of Smith’s attempt to jail Trump for fake and made-up crimes relating to January 6.
But this ruling enraged Democrats because it meant there was no chance to put Trump on trial before the election.
In response, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced the “No Kings Act,” which eliminated the concept of Presidential immunity.
“The Founders were explicit – no man in America shall be a king. Yet, in their disastrous decision, the Supreme Court threw out centuries of precedent and anointed Trump and subsequent presidents as kings above the law,” Schumer declared.
“The Founders were explicit – no man in America shall be a king. Yet, in their disastrous decision, the Supreme Court threw out centuries of precedent and anointed Trump and subsequent presidents as kings above the law,” Schumer ranted.
A frightening law
Schumer’s legislation was meant to “clarify that a President or Vice President is not entitled to any form of immunity from criminal prosecution for violations of the criminal laws of the United States unless specified by Congress.”
To show that this was specifically targeted at Trump, the bill left the concept of immunity for civil lawsuits in place.
The law also says that federal courts “may not consider whether an alleged violation of any criminal laws of the United States committed by a President or Vice President was within the conclusive or preclusive constitutional authority of a President or Vice President or was related to the official duties of a President or Vice President unless directed by Congress.”
And just to make sure prosecutors can jail Trump, the bill eliminates the concept of separation of powers and judicial review by banning Trump from appealing a ruling on whether his conduct fell under the rubric of an official act from the Supreme Court.
Instead, Trump could only appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will have a Democrat majority for decades to come.
“The Supreme Court of the United States shall have no appellate jurisdiction, on the basis that an alleged criminal act was within the conclusive or preclusive constitutional authority of a President or Vice President or on the basis that an alleged criminal act was related to the official duties of a President or Vice President,” the bill states.
Schumer introduced this bill for one reason and one reason only – revenge on the Supreme Court for its immunity ruling.
