Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled on Thursday legislation that seeks to nullify the favorable Supreme Court ruling former President Donald Trump received last month on the issue of presidential immunity as he runs another campaign for the White House.
The “No Kings Act” would affirm no president or vice president, former or sitting, would be “entitled to any form of immunity (whether absolute, presumptive, or otherwise) from criminal prosecution for alleged violations of the criminal laws of the United States unless specified by Congress.”
Trump scored a victory one month ago when the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s claim of presidential immunity to shield himself from federal prosecution in a 2020 election case was valid for official acts, but not unofficial conduct, and handed the matter back to a lower court to parse out.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan,…
