Biden demands constitutional amendment on presidential immunity in final warning before Trump takes power Trump’s administration is expected to be full of lawyers who fought to expand the scope of presidential power.
The Supreme Court’s decision scrambled efforts from special counsel Jack Smith to prosecute the case against the former president, whose appeals on his “immunity” defense triggered a series of delays that ensured he would evade a trial before November’s election.
Biden similarly warned the nation about the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in remarks that followed the ruling on July 1, saying that the ruling “almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”.
“We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president, is immune from crimes he or she commits while in office,” he said in remarks from the Oval Office on Wednesday.
In his final address to the nation as president, Joe Biden called for the creation of a new Constitutional amendment to demolish the concept of presidential “immunity” from criminal prosecution.
