LOS AGNELES.–Rejecting the Supreme Court July 1 ruling granting limited presidential immunity to President Donald Trump for official acts, 73-year-old Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), showed his contempt for the rule of law. Schumer wants to counter the Supreme Court by introducing legislation to limit the Supreme Court’s ruling by defining “unofficial acts,” a key to putting breaks on the Supreme Court ruling. Democrats hoped to keep Trump from running for president by using the Justice Department to charge Trump with a wide variety crimes related to the Jan. 6, Capitol “insurrection.” Democrats did everything possible while Trump was president to charge and convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors, actually impeaching Trump twice for petty offenses. Democrats charged Trump with trying to dig up dirt on 81-year-old President Joe Biden and his 54-year-old son Hunter.
Trump’s official duty is protecting U.S. national security, clearly an official act. Yet 84-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did everything possible to evict Trump from office and prevent him from running again. Pelsoi’s diabolical plan backfired when the U.S. Senate acquitted Trump of any wrongdoing. Then, once the Jan. 6 Capitol riots took place, Pelosi impeached Trump against for “incitement of insurrection.” Pelosi called the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and “insurrection,” with the specific intent to preventing Trump from running again invoking an arcane section of the 14th Amendment Pelsois’s second impeachment failed in the U.S. Senate, because Trump did not incite violence on Jan. 6. After that failed, then Pelosi put together the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to fabricate evidence that Trump planned and orchestrated the Capitol riots.
Democrats reject the Constitution and rule of law, in effect, rejecting American democracy, recognizing the authority of three coequal branches of the U.S. government. How ironic that Democrats argument against Trump is that he threatens U.S. democracy. It’s Democrats that reject the Constitution and rule of law, making up anything to interfere with the 2024 election. Democrats complained bitterly when the Supreme ruled March 4 that Colorado and other states can’t keep Trump off the ballot. So, the whole purpose of Democrats calling the Jan. 6 Capitol riots insurrection was foiled by the Supreme Court. “They incorrectly declared that former President Trump enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he took while in office . . .” Schumer said, rejecting the Supreme Court ruling, Constitution and rule of law, rejecting American democracy.
Schumer and Pelosi did everything possible to deny Trump his due process rights by weaponizing the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and NSA to investigate, charge and convict him of fabricated crimes against the state. Now Schumer wants to undo the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. “They incorrectly declared that all future presidents are entitled to a breathtaking level of immunity as long as their conduct is ostensibly carried out in their official capacity as president,” Schumer said. Schumer accuses Trump of destroying American democracy, the favorite 2024 anti-Trump talking point. Yet it’s Schumer and Democrats that reject the Article 3 of the Constitution, giving the Supreme Court the authority to rule on laws or actions they deem as unconstitutional. Schumer and Democrats seek to destroy American democracy, not Trump.
Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling did nothing other than re-affirm under Article 2 that the presidency receives basic immunity for official acts, foiling Democrats efforts to use the Constitution and the courts to prevent Trump from running in 2024. Schumer is not a Supreme Court expert only a partisan hack that would do anything to stop Trump from winning the White House. “I will work with my colleagues on legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts no subject to immunity,” Schumer said, knowing that Trump is well within his Article 2 rights to guarantee the integrity of election. If the president sees election irregularities, it’s within his official duties to assure that election fraud does not take place. Schumer’s and his fellow Senate Democrats seeks to undermine the Supreme Court’s Aricle 3 Constitutional authority.
Schumer and Senate democrats violate the Constitution and rule of law by rejecting the Supreme Court’s Article 3 authority to rule on presidential immunity. Schumer knows that with the Senate closely divided, he doesn’t have the votes to get his legislation to Biden’s desk. But Schumer and Democrats must admit now they reject American Democracy, allowing all three coequal branches of government to function independently. Ruling July 1 to protect presidential immunity, the Supreme Court served notice on the Justice Department that it cannot arbitrarily investigate and charge a president with crimes, like obstruction of a presidential election or illegally retaining classified documents, if it’s with the president’s normal immunity. Democrats never proved that Trump had anything to do with Jan. 6 Capitol riots yet they charge him with the acts of an illegal mob.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
