Rep. Jamie Raskin rolled out an effort to counter the Supreme Court's recent decision on presidential immunity.
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is pushing back against the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity ruling, suggesting Democrats are eyeing ways to limit former President Trump’s abilities that were expanded by the high court’s decision. 'It is up to Congress, the representative branch of the people, to defend the constitutional order against presidents who would trample the freedoms of the people,' Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
Three – preventing the adoption of partisan, personal and ideological loyalty tests, loyalty oaths and similar authoritarian measures designed to purge the professional civil service, and replace qualified workers with unqualified party loyalists and sycophants.' 'Four, ensuring that presidents who abuse their powers to commit crimes can be prosecuted like all other citizens.
hope that when we get back in, that we will be able to have at least a couple of serious hearings about the problem of overreach in the executive branch and weakness to potential tyrants and despots and dictators,' Raskin said. 'I hope that those hearings would lead us to create a legislative package to address these structural deficiencies in our statutory system.' He added, 'I would hope that Republicans would come along.
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