Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin laid into the Supreme Court for taking up former President Donald Trump’s immunity case, accusing it of doing his bidding.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin laid into the Supreme Court for taking up former President Donald Trump’s immunity case, accusing it of doing his bidding.
Durbin (D-Ill.), whose committee has scrutinized the high court on ethics, underscored that taking up the case for consideration could dramatically delay Trump’s forthcoming trial.
“I think that is a disappointment. I think the court has acted quickly in the past when they realized that the presidential timetable was at risk. I’m really concerned with what they’ve done,” Durbin told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Trump’s four-count criminal indictment for his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election was initially supposed to commence Monday, but his lawyers bought time with an appeal on presidential immunity grounds.
His attorneys are arguing that the case should be tossed out because Trump was fulfilling his obligations as president to protect the election, and therefore, is not liable for prosecution.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, rejected those claims, as did a three-judge panel on the US Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court agreed to consider the case last week.
