Chairman schiff introducing formally new sweeping legislation to deal with exactly this. My reason for being here is as simple as the title protecting our Democracy Act. It shouldnt matter who the president of the United States is. We should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves. We should want them to maintain independence from the Justice Department, not use it as their own private law firm, not use it to go after their adversaries. The plan here is not partisan as emphasized. The legislation would have rules to limit how President S use or, again, potentially abuse pardon power. Deal with the deadlines that might prevent otherwise prosecution of Rogue President s. Thats obviously a look at the legal presidency of trump. And to enforce the ban on President S who arent allowed to enrich themselves. Also ideas to better protect doj independence. This is all part of congress broader efforts at accountability, deal with what trump did as well as pre
eastman documented the scheme in a stunning memo obtained by the authors and shared with msnbc. and what that memo proposed was nothing short of a coup. it called for pence to site on going disputes over the slate of electors from seven states which pence would declare invalid and toss out. by cancelling the votes trump would be left for majority and pence could gavel him in with pence himself as having been reelected. if democrats object, eastman proposed sending the matter to the house where republican whose control the majority of states would have voted to reelect trump anyway. their theory it was a win, win for trump either way of course, that s not how the process is supposed to work. for one thing, eastman falsely asserted pence as vice president was the ultimate arbiter of any elections that arise. if the shoe was on the other foot, it s hard to believe any republican would be as enthusiastic about kamala harris wielding that power in 2024. while he rejected eastman s