Crockett Statement on SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling

WASHINGTON — July 1, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) released the following statement responding to  the decision by the United States Supreme Court in Trump v. United States: “Today, six Justices handed down a decision that clears the way for a U.S. President to weaponize our executive agencies, weaponize his Vice President, weaponize our military, weaponize state-level officials, and weaponize federal law enforcement officers, without any fear of criminal prosecution if clouded under the guise of official duty. It is a complete repudiation of the credo etched above the entrance in which these Justices sit: ‘Equal Justice Under Law’.

 “To quote the Majority’s decision, ‘the President, unlike anyone else in our country, is comparatively free to engage in criminal acts in furtherance of his official duties,’ and ‘courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.’
So what are we, as Americans, left with? As Justice Jackson puts it: ‘whether the President will be exempt from legal liability for murder, assault, theft, fraud or any other reprehensible and outlawed criminal act’ will turn on a judge’s determination. “Let us be clear: not only is the outcome of today’s decision deeply flawed, so too was the judicial process that enabled it to move...