Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is suggesting that the Supreme Court be moved to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee (RNC) since conservative justices are behaving like partisan actors instead of impartial judges.
Raskin’s comments came after conservative justices on the court seem to be open to Donald Trump’s arguments of presidential immunity from prosecution in his federal election subversion case.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me. They should move the Supreme Court over to the RNC headquarters because they’re acting like a bunch of partisan operatives,” Raskin said.
Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer argued before the Supreme Court that even if a president assassinated his political rival, he could be immune from criminal prosecution because that could be considered an “official act.”
The congressman also slammed questions from Justice Samuel Alito who suggested that if a president could be criminally prosecuted by a political opponent after leaving office, it would incentive the president to stage a coup to remain office.
Raskin said that was the “most astonishing” observation from the hearing and the question “buys completely into Donald Trump’s narcissistic criminal worldview.”
“I mean, for all of American history, we’ve said presidents are subject to criminal prosecution if they commit crimes,” he continued. “Now they say, well, if you’re really mean to Donald Trump, and you hold him accountable the way every other American citizen is accountable, then he’ll really overthrow the government. He’ll really bring out the big guns, and we can’t afford that.”
“Of course you’ve got to hold the president accountable to the law — it’s the basic premise of our law that no one is above the law, including the president,” Raskin added. “Now we’ve got a bunch of justices who are asking questions that indicate that they are as corrupted as members of Congress who I served with.”
