CV NEWS FEED // President Joe Biden this week slammed the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in the case Trump v. United States upholding presidents’ immunity from being criminally prosecuted for official acts.
As CatholicVote reported Monday, the ruling “guts the federal prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump for interference in the 2020 election.”
Biden responded in a video statement highlighted on his X account. “This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” he said. “Each, each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law. Not even the president of the United States.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling, he continued, “almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
In a separate X post, Biden stated: “I will respect the limits of presidential powers that I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.”
He added that he concurs with Justice Sonia Sotomayer, who wrote the dissenting opinion in the case and was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
As CatholicVote previously reported, the Supreme Court’s majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, “makes it clear that no president is above consequences for criminal action: ‘The President is not above the law.’”
Sotomayer’s dissent claimed that hypothetically, a president could commit the following crimes and be immune:
Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. … Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky described the dissent as “not only hyperbolic but also harmful.”
CatholicVote’s previous report on the immunity ruling highlighted that according to the Constitution, presidents will be impeached for crimes such as bribery, treason, or other misdemeanors or high crimes.
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