“The Court’s six Republican-appointed justices upended our constitutional landscape with their misguided ruling in Trump v United States. This dangerous decision immunizes presidents who commit crimes, no matter how serious, as long as they claim their offenses were ‘official acts.’ The far-right justices responsible for this decision like to claim that they are guided by ‘textualism’ or ‘originalism,’ but the reality is that they’re engaged in judicial activism unmoored from the text of the Constitution and intentions of our framers, and Congress cannot turn a blind eye to it. This Supreme Court decision goes to the heart of our democracy,” says the Senate Judiciary Committee in a statement announcing a September 24th hearing on convicted felon former President Trump getting a blank check to build a dictatorship in the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump v US.
“During this upcoming hearing, we will examine the breadth of future misconduct that may be immunized from prosecution, consider the unprecedented nature of this immunity in American history, and discuss legislative solutions to the dangers of this decision. The Senate Judiciary Committee will not tolerate these justices cherry-picking their way through text and history to impose their own extreme vision of presidential power on the American people.”