WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Thursday that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a September hearing to look at “the immediate legal and policy ramifications” of the Supreme Court’s decision last month that grants Donald Trump full immunity for “official acts” he took as president.
“During this upcoming hearing, we will examine the breadth of future misconduct that may be immunized from prosecution, consider the unprecedented nature of this immunity in American history, and discuss legislative solutions to the dangers of this decision,” Durbin, the committee chairman, said in a statement.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee will not tolerate these justices cherry-picking their way through text and history to impose their own extreme vision of presidential power on the American people,” he said.
Durbin didn’t give a specific date or the names of potential witnesses. But Senate Democrats are clearly eager to do something that flexes the strength…