Friday, August 02, 2024

Schumer's 'No Kings Act' to Eliminate Presidential Criminal Immunity

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced a bill that would ensure that presidents do not have criminal immunity.

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Apply this to all government employees. End qualified immunity.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-08-01 10:25 AM

It doesn't have to pass right away... it only has to make Trumpers defend against it; to explain to voters why it's wrong.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-01 10:39 AM

This shouldn't be necessary in the United States of America.

But a group of fascists has made it come down to this.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-01 11:32 AM

When the Supreme Court whores themselves out like a Serbian porn star...

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-02 11:36 AM

Good! Pass it! Ram it down their throats!

Check and Mate...

#5 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-02 11:41 AM

The MAGA neo-monarchists will be horribly upset about this.

#6 | Posted by anton at 2024-08-02 11:48 AM

But it's not what the Founding Fathers wanted.

the right

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-08-02 12:04 PM

"This shouldn't be necessary in the United States of America."

We passed that boundary when a man was ruined for moving his foot while wiping..

#8 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-08-02 12:48 PM

#3

This is and will always be necessary in EVERY COUNTRY.

The list of corrupt US presidents is very, very long. The period from 1932 to 1968 was an anomaly, not the norm. The corruption started with Monroe (I'm not counting the earlier 3 slaveowners ONLY because being a slave-owning dirtbag wasn't considered corrupt back then, even though it's obviously incredibly evil), and continued until the brief pause with Lincoln, then resumed unabated until FDR. Since 1968, the "mostly not corrupt" list is only Carter, Obama, and Biden.

And I still maintain that if Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Shrubby had been prosecuted, T---p would never have even considered running.

What we REALLY need is a 4th branch of the federal government - a branch that exists only to prosecute corruption in the others, a branch that would have no power over ordinary citizens, but would go after corrupt elected officials, political appointees, and judges at all levels of government.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-08-02 01:43 PM

Words

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#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-02 01:48 PM

#8

Are you talking about the Senator Larry Craig Memorial Restroom?

#11 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-08-02 01:48 PM

What we REALLY need is a 4th branch of the federal government - a branch that exists only to prosecute corruption in the others, a branch that would have no power over ordinary citizens, but would go after corrupt elected officials, political appointees, and judges at all levels of government.
#9 | POSTED BY DARKVADER

How would one ensure that such a branch is itself not corrupted by partisanship, bribery etc?

#12 | Posted by JOE at 2024-08-02 01:58 PM

"How would one ensure that such a branch is itself not corrupted by partisanship, bribery etc?"

Why, we'd stock it ONLY with Republicans!
~Mitch McConnell

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-08-02 02:41 PM

Fester the toe-tapper.

Weird.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-03 03:06 PM

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