https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chuck-schumer-remove-presidential-immunity-trump-rcna164618Chuck Schumer is now pushing a bill- not constitutional amendment- to try to overturn the supreme court ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts per the constitution. Now of course this is pure theater, but it means Schumer is purposefully pushing a unconstitutional bill in congress to directly contradict a supreme court ruling of constitutionality without a constitutional amendment.
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If it is passed, the legislation would make it clear that Congress has the power to determine “to whom federal criminal laws may be applied," not the Supreme Court, according to the bill's outline provided by Schumer's office.
Basically in an attempt to git orange man, he's trying to pass a bill that would overturn the entirety of constitutional review by the supreme court. Despite the fact such a bill would be unconstitutional before any court even needs to rule on it. He might as well be trying to pass a piece of legislation that says the constitution has been overturned and no longer applies. It would be like a bill saying the entire federal judiciary has been disbanded and no courts are allowed to exist. Even by the most ludicrous stretches of neoliberal imagination this couldn't be construed as a working concept.
I mean fucking hell, at least when Republicans tried to repeal Obamacare 514 times or whatever it was, they were pushing a bill that actually
worked, even if they didn't actually want it to pass.