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On Monday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that his committee will be holding a hearing on the Supreme Court’s ruling granting broad immunity to former President Donald Trump amidst his ongoing legal cases.
As reported by The Hill, Democrats have repeatedly denounced the high court’s ruling in July, which determined by a 6-3 majority that President Trump has broad immunity in the two cases brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith – one in Florida and one in Washington, D.C. – as well as the case against him in Georgia by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The ruling determined that President Trump could not be prosecuted for official actions he undertook in his official capacity as President of the United States; this ruling included his efforts to fight voter fraud in the 2020 election, which Democrats have falsely referred to as attempts to “overturn” the election. He was also granted immunity for his actions during the peaceful protest at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, which Democrats have falsely described as an “insurrection.”
“Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a full committee hearing on the ramifications of the ruling from the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority in the Donald Trump immunity case on September 24,” said Durbin in his statement.
“Congress can’t turn a blind eye to the dangers of the Donald Trump immunity decision by the Supreme Court. We’re going to highlight the blaring dangers of this far-right ruling for the American people,” he continued.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the newest and most far-left member of the Supreme Court, said in an interview on CBS that she was “concerned” about the ruling, claiming that it placed “one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling essentially made it impossible for Smith and Willis to continue prosecuting their cases, and all but guaranteed that they will not go to trial before the election on November 5th.
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