Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s latest gimmicky attack on the Supreme Court is called the “No Kings Act,” which would overturn SCOTUS’s recent immunity decision related to the prosecution of Donald Trump.
“The Founders were explicit — no man in America shall be a king. Yet, in their disastrous decision, the Supreme Court threw out centuries of precedent and anointed Trump and subsequent presidents as kings above the law,” Schumer says.
Now, I suppose, peddling some doomed law is an improvement on standing in front of the Supreme Court and threatening justices like a deranged demagogue, as Schumer did in 2020. Nevertheless, the court didn’t anoint anyone a king.
I’m skeptical of constitutionally-protected presidential immunity arguments, but the Supreme Court merely recognized “that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for acts that are within the ambit of their executive authority.” This position was largely upheld for a long time by the norms that Democrats blew up when they shredded due process with their trumped-up, sometimes fictitious, charges against the leading GOP presidential hopeful.
The remedy for presidential misconduct, by the way, is impeachment and removal. As much as he tries, Schumer does not have the power to dictate how the Judicial branch rules.
Here, though, is an example of how to create kings.
First, spend decades attacking the legitimacy of a court because it refuses to subscribe to the living-breathing theory of constitutional law — which is no kind of law, at all. Then, every time the court upholds limits
