Joe Biden Slams 'Dangerous' Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling

President Joe Biden criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling giving former President Donald Trump legal immunity for many of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, saying that now, “there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”

“Any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law,” Biden said after returning to the White House on Monday from Camp David, the presidential retreat where he met with family to discuss his reelection campaign.

He called the ruling “a fundamentally new principle and a dangerous precedent” and vowed that he wouldn’t be one to break the law in office.

In a controversial 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative justices ruled that Trump enjoys complete immunity for his presidential actions that were “official” in nature, but not for those that were “private.” The high court sent the case back to a lower court to determine which actions alleged in the indictment may fall somewhere in between, such as his pressuring of state-level officials to create fraudulent slates of Electoral College electors in states he had lost in the 2020 election.

The ruling effectively makes a trial on Trump’s election subversion charges impossible before the November 2024 election.

In a fiery dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority opinion “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.”

“The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding,” she added.

Biden’s remarks at the White House on Monday evening come amid intense scrutiny regarding his political future. The 81-year-old president’s lethargic performance