Yesterday we emailed you about our just-launched campaign for a constitutional
amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s profoundly misguided ruling in Donald
Trump’s immunity case.

More than 40 members of Congress have already signed on as co-sponsors of the
amendment!

Here’s what Rep. Jamie Raskin — a noted constitutional law professor before he
was elected to Congress — said:

“We must do everything in our power to reverse the Supreme Court’s outrageous
betrayal of more than two centuries of constitutional law in America.”

This is the situation:

* On July 1, the Supreme Court — in a case brought by Donald Trump — ruled that
U.S. presidents are immune from prosecution for otherwise illegal actions
they take as part of their official duties (with “official” being defined so
loosely that it could cover just about anything).

* By granting this sweeping power to break the law with impunity, the Supreme
Court’s profoundly misguided ruling contrived an above-the-law status for
American presidents heretofore associated with foreign despots, dictators,
and kings.

* Ironically, three days later the American people celebrated Independence Day,
when we commemorate winning our freedom — two and a half centuries ago — from
the very kind of tyrannical monarchy the Supreme Court ruling threatens to
revive.

* Reading the majority opinion in Trump v. United States on the day it was issued was sickening — physically and spiritually.

* Public Citizen immediately got to work, connecting with coalition partners
and allies on Capitol Hill, including Rep. Joe Morelle of New York.

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Pass the just-introduced constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme
Court’s insane ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case and to reestablish the
longstanding, fundamental principle that no one — not even the president of the
United States — is above the law.
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For democracy,

- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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