Democrats warn ‘Americans should be scared’ after Supreme Court gives Trump substantial immunity: Live updates

President Joe Biden will ship remarks on the Supreme Court docket presidential immunity ruling at 7.45pm this night from the White Home.

New York Democrat consultant Joe Morelle says he’ll introduce a constitutional modification to reverse immediately’s Supreme Court docket resolution.

“I’ll introduce a constitutional modification to reverse SCOTUS’ dangerous resolution and be certain that no president is above the legislation. This modification will do what SCOTUS didn’t do—prioritize our democracy”

Democratic Rep Jamie Raskin, the rating member of the Home Oversight Committee says immediately’s Supreme Court docket resolution “is a radical break from the rule of legislation which underscores how a lot our democratic values have been eroded and are on the road in November”.

Right here’s his assertion in full:

“As we speak, the Supreme Court docket took a bulldozer to the democratic credo that no one-including presidents and former presidents- is above the legislation. Three years in the past, after Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, Mitch McConnell defined, ‘We now have a prison justice system on this nation… And former Presidents are usually not immune from being held accountable. However immediately, far-right justices embedded with the ‘Cease the Steal’ motion conferred broad immunity on Donald Trump, even going as far as to assist him preserve proof of his prison actions from coming to mild in a courtroom of legislation. As we speak’s ruling, suspending any prosecution of Trump till after the election and holding that Presidents are presumptively immune from prison prosecution for utilizing their workplace to assassinate political rivals, arrange a army coup, or take bribes, is a radical break from the rule of legislation which underscores how a lot our democratic values have been eroded and are on the road in November. Donald Trump has made it clear that, if he wins election, he’ll use his presidential powers to pardon all his co-conspirators and weaponize the Justice Division by firing profession staff and changing them with a military of sycophants prepared to interact in retributive harassment in opposition to his political opponents. All of this could be presumably allowable beneath immediately’s horrific resolution.”

Nevertheless, the courtroom conceded that “not the whole lot the President does is official” and that “the President is just not above the legislation.”

Donald Trump has posted one among his trademark all-caps posts on Fact Social in response to the Supreme Court docket’s resolution on presidential immunity.

He wrote: “THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL ONE THAN SOME HAD EXPECTED IT TO BE. IT IS BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN AND WISE, AND CLEARS THE STENCH FROM THE BIDEN TRIALS AND HOAXES, ALL OF THEM, THAT HAVE BEEN USED AS AN UNFAIR ATTACK ON CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. MANY OF THESE FAKE CASES WILL NOW DISAPPEAR, OR WITHER INTO OBSCURITY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Rep Adam Schiff — now working for the Senate in California — says the Supreme Court docket’s resolution is “harmful, anti-democratic, and unprecedented”.

The Supreme Court docket on Monday ordered decrease courts to take one other take a look at a set of content material moderation legal guidelines in Florida and Texas that have been designed to guard conservative speech on social media platforms.

In a unanimous resolution, the justices punted the social media moderation circumstances again to the decrease courts, discovering that they didn’t correctly analyze First Modification challenges to the legal guidelines.

For now, social media firms can proceed to control speech posted on platforms as typical.