President Biden said the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity “undermines the rule of law of this nation,» just one month after he said the justice system “should be respected.»
President Biden claimed this week that the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity «undermines the rule of law of this nation», just one month after he said the justice system and its decisions «should be respected» and bragged about the high court not being able to «stop» him from carrying out his agenda.
«This decision today has continued the Court’s attack in recent years on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to taking away a woman’s right to choose to today’s decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation», Biden said in a brief address from the White House on Monday.
Biden’s remarks on the ruling came less than a week after his disastrous debate with former President Trump, who he insisted would be «emboldened» by the court’s ruling should the former president win back the White House in this year’s election.
«The American people must decide if Trump’s embrace of violence to preserve his power is acceptable. Perhaps most importantly, the American people must decide if they want to entrust the presidency to Donald Trump once again. Now knowing, he’ll be even more emboldened to do whatever he pleases, whenever he wants to do it», Biden said.
The comments from the president struck a different tone from that which he used in May, when he claimed the justice system «should be respected» and that it was «reckless» for Trump to claim that the verdict in his New York City criminal trial was «rigged.»
«It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict», Biden said in response to Trump’s remarks about the NY v. Trump verdict, which found the former president guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.
