Schumer introduces bill to strip Trump’s presidential immunity

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 34 Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing legislation to strip former President Trump of the broad immunity from prosecution for official acts the Supreme Court granted him last month.

The Democratic bill, called the “No Kings Act,” would clarify that presidents and vice presidents do not have immunity for acts that violate federal criminal law, and it would remove the Supreme Court’s ability to hear challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation, authorizing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals instead to hear such challenges.