Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) threatened to impeach members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday after the high court ruled that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts that they take, but not for unofficial conduct.
Justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines in the decision and sent the case in which Trump pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of unlawfully plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election back to a lower D.C. court for further review.
“The President is not above the law,” the ruling said. “But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the ruling in a post on X: “The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption…
