(TheRedWire.com) – Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer is trying to classify Trump’s actions on January 6 as unofficial.
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is leading legislation to attempt to classify the actions former President Donald Trump took on January 6, 2021, as unofficial.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Schumer stated Democrats would not allow SCOTUS’s decision to “stand unaddressed,” explaining the Constitution gives Congress authority to “check the judiciary through appropriate legislation.”
Schumer revealed he would be working with Democrats on “legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts” that wouldn’t enjoy immunity.
Schumer suggested the Supreme Court Justices, who ruled Presidents are immune from prosecution stemming from official acts, are incorrect in declaring Trump “enjoys broad immunity… for actions he took while in office.”
The New York Democrat asserted the Justices had “incorrectly declared” future U.S. presidents had a “breathtaking level of immunity” provided their conduct forms part of their “official capacity as president.”
The details of the bill Schumer is pioneering remain unclear, as is the method he’ll use to clear the 60-vote approval limit in a chamber where Democrats have a slim majority.
In response to Schumer’s initiative, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) expressed opposition on the Senate floor.
McConnell suggested Democrats “want to turn Washington into The Hague,” adding Democrats’ issue with the SCOTUS ruling isn’t that it prevents them from prosecuting a “president for unofficial criminal activity,” but that it prevented them from prosecuting “official actions… they don’t like.”
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