‘A terrible disservice’: Biden slams Supreme Court immunity ruling, says it lets presidents ignore the law

President Joe Biden blasted the Supreme Court’s decision granting former and future presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts saying it gives the executive office, and possibly Donald Trump, the power “to do whatever he pleases, whenever he wants to do it.”

Speaking from the Cross Hall in the White House Monday evening, Biden panned the ruling from the six Republican-appointed justices, who said presidents cannot face criminal prosecution for official acts. The high court took up the matter at the request of Trump, who is currently under indictment for unlawfully attempting to overturn his election loss to Biden in 2020.

Biden said the court’s decision has “changed for all for all practical purposes” the principle that no man is above the law in America.

“This is a fundamentally new principle, and it’s a dangerous precedent, because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law… the only limits will be self imposed by the president alone,” Biden said.

Referring to the genesis of the case Trump’s legal team had brought before the court — the Jan. 6 riot Trump fomented to block certification of Biden’s 2020 election win — the president called that day one of the darkest in American history.

“Now the man who sent that mob to the US Capitol is facing potential criminal conviction for what happened that day, and the American people deserved to have an answer in the courts before the upcoming election,” he said.

Biden added the court had done “a terrible disservice to the people of this nation” by effectively blocking any chance that Trump could see trial related to the Jan. 6 riot.

“Now the American people have to do what the court should have been willing to do, but will not,” he