Free Speech For Individuals strongly endorses the “No Kings” invoice, launched by Senate Majority Chief Schumer and joined by 29 co-sponsors, which is able to undo the Supreme Court docket’s damaging and wrongly determined ruling in Trump v. United States and make sure that neither the President nor Vice President is above the legislation.
The proposed legislation supplies that no President, Vice President, or anybody who previously held both place is immune from felony prosecution for violating the legal guidelines of the US except Congress expressly grants such immunity. It is going to prohibit courts—together with the Supreme Court docket—from halting or delaying proceedings, suppressing related proof, or overturning convictions on the premise that the unlawful acts have been purportedly inside the defendant’s “constitutional authority” or associated to his or her “official duties.”
The laws will reverse the Supreme Court docket’s current resolution in Trump v. United States, which manufactured an unprecedented and harmful idea of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court docket’s resolution upends lots of of years of precedent and betrays a defining function of our constitutional democracy: that every one persons are equal within the eyes of the legislation and that nobody, not even the president, is above it. It leaves our nation weak to deprave, lawless officers who abuse the facility of their workplace and will now assert that energy as grounds to evade prosecution. And it’s joined by two Justices who ought to have been recused from listening to the case as a consequence of clear conflicts of curiosity.
This laws, just like the modification decision not too long ago launched by Rep. Morelle and likewise endorsed by Free Speech For Individuals, shouldn’t be essential. However as a result of it’s, it’s crucial that Congress act swiftly to cross this laws, affirm the rules of equality earlier than the legislation which might be a bedrock of our democracy, and shut the door to authoritarianism that the Supreme Court docket has opened.
Free Speech For Individuals applauds Senator Schumer and his co-sponsors for taking swift and essential steps to reject United States v. Trump and to defend our democracy.
Learn extra right here in regards to the democracy amendments, a sequence of amendments to reclaim our democracy that Free Speech For Individuals helps.
Learn extra right here about Free Speech For Individuals’s demand for Supreme Court docket accountability and reform to revive legitimacy to the Court docket.
