Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) suggested Sunday that President Biden will respect the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on former President Trump’s immunity argument.
“I think there’s a big contrast between former President Trump and President Biden in terms of their respect for the rule of law and how they approach law enforcement and our legal system,” Coons said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The Delaware senator was responding to a question from “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream, who asked whether Biden would accept the Supreme Court’s ruling given his criticism of the high court for its ruling on his student loan forgiveness proposal.
The Supreme Court is expected to issue its opinion this week on Trump’s immunity claim, in which he argues he is immune from charges of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election due to presidential immunity.
The argument, which delayed his criminal trial in Washington, D.C., was rejected in lower courts, although the Supreme Court’s oral arguments appeared open to granting some immunity to former presidents. This may, however, not fully meet the needs of Trump’s defense team.
It is unclear what day the decision might be made, although the Supreme Court has just a few days until the judges’ self-imposed deadline to finalize opinions, by the end of June.
“Former President Trump was in a courtroom in New York, where he attacked the prosecutor, the prosecution, the judge, the jury, the entire process so many times that before he was finally convicted by a jury of 34 crimes, he was subjected to a gag order,” Coons said, referring to Trump’s secret trial.
The former president launched a series of attacks against Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, along with his family members and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who brought the case. His observations led Merchan issue a gag order which prohibited him from speaking about the families, jurors, witnesses and family members of any attorneys or employees of Merchan and Bragg.
Coons sought to contrast that with Biden’s handling of his son Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction in federal court earlier this month. The president’s son was found guilty of three felony charges earlier this month for lying on federal forms about using drugs to illegally purchase a gun, making him the first son of a sitting president to be criminally convicted.
“President Biden, we just saw evidence of this last week – his own son was convicted here in a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware – and he never attacked, criticized or questioned the judge, the prosecutor, the jury, the process. said he would not use the pardon power,” Coons said.
Biden ruled out the possibility of commuting his son’s sentence and said he would “accept” the jury’s decision and not pardon him.
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