{"id":264,"date":"2024-07-04T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:03:01","slug":"us-supreme-courts-judgement-house-democrat-proposes-constitutional-amendment-to-reverse-immunity-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/us-supreme-courts-judgement-house-democrat-proposes-constitutional-amendment-to-reverse-immunity-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court&#8217;s Judgement: House Democrat Proposes Constitutional Amendment To Reverse Immunity Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A leading Democrat in the US House of Representatives is working on a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark immunity ruling, seeking to reverse the decision to ensure that all presidents are equal in the eyes of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joseph Morelle of New York, notified his colleagues in a letter of his intent to file the resolution, which originally would amount to a cumbersome amendment process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis amendment will do what the Supreme Court of the United States failed to do \u2014 prioritize our democracy,\u201d Morelle said in a statement to a news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While referring to Donald Trump, Morelle, the US Representative for New York\u2019s 25th congressional district, said the former president \u201cmust be held accountable for his decisions. I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and stand with me on the front line to protect our democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move by Morelle is the first and most significant legislative response so far to the decision this week from the court&#8217;s conservative majority, which did not go down well with officials at the White House. Thee ruling also attracted a sharp dissent from the court&#8217;s liberal justices warning of the implications to democracy, particularly as Trump seeks re-election to the White House. From all indications, the move seems not to stand a chance of succeeding in this Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presenting his judgement on behalf of the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken in their official capacity, a decision that throws into doubt the Justice Department&#8217;s cases against Trump, including his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: AP<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading Democrat in the US House of Representatives is working on a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark immunity ruling, seeking to reverse the decision to&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}