A day after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that Donald Trump — and future presidents — are immune from prosecution for any of their official acts in office, activists with Indivisible Brooklyn (INBK) and Rise and Resist gathered for a rally at Grand Army Plaza, where they called on Senator Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court.
A day after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that Donald Trump — and future presidents — are immune from prosecution for any of their official acts in office, activists with Indivisible Brooklyn and Rise and Resist gathered for a rally at Grand Army Plaza, where they called on Senator Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court.
“If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now, expanding the court is the only route to protecting our democracy,” Romer said. “We need Chuck Schumer as our elected leader to come out and say so.”Political activists called on Senator Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court to 13 judges during a July 2 rally.
On June 28, the Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, limiting the broad regulatory authority of federal agencies and making it more challenging to regulate environmental protection, public health, worker protection, food and drug safety, telecommunications, and the financial sector, among others. And on Monday, they ruled that former presidents are shielded from prosecutions for actions taken within their constitutional authority.
Activists took turns reading Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing descent. Sotomayor said the ruling made “a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government that no man is above the law.”Brooklynite Lynn Yellin said the Supreme Court has been out of control since then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell obstructed the hearing or vote of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016.
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