President Joe Biden arrives to speak in the Cross Hall of the White House Monday, July 1, 2024, in Washington. President Biden on Monday assailed as a dangerous precedent the Supreme Court’s decision to grant former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution for his official actions as president.
“Today’s decision almost certainly means that there are no limits on what a president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said.
In a 6-3 decision issued along ideological lines, the Court narrowed special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Mr. Trump, including allegations that he sought to weaponize the Justice Department to amplify claims of voter fraud. At the trial level, a federal judge must now determine what acts Mr. Trump took in his capacity as president, or ‘official acts,” from private ones such as acting as a presidential candidate.Mr. Biden said the American people have a right to know what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, in which a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, and he lamented that the Supreme Court decision means the public may never find answers.
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