“The ramifications of this ruling are not abstract, especially following the January 6 attack on the Capitol,” said one coalition member. “This decision impacts everyone, because the actions of the president of the United States affect all of us.” Dozens of civil society groups on Monday told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that congressional action […]
“Congress has an obligation to act as a check and ensure that the president does not become a king,” an expert said in praise of Schumer’s move. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday introduced legislation that would establish that the president and vice president don’t have immunity from prosecution—an effort to overturn the […]
“These popular reforms will help to restore confidence in the court, strengthen our democracy, and ensure no one is above the law,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee. U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday detailed his plan to reform the U.S. Supreme Court and address one of its most controversial recent decisions in an […]
A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.” In her dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trump v. United States, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued the high court’s right-wing supermajority has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable […]