US President Joe Biden is convinced that neither himself, nor former US leader Donald Trump should have immunity from prosecution.
Biden was commenting in Texas on a July 1 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said Trump, like other former U.S. leaders, has partial immunity from prosecution related only to his actions in the course of his official duties .
„The court ruled only in relation to the former president. No other president in our history has sought such criminal immunity,” he said. “And no president, no former president, no me, no one else should be an exception to that and have that kind of immunity,”, Biden emphasized.
The president has spoken out in favor of sweeping reform of the US Supreme Court. As the White House previously reported, Biden intends to strip former presidents of their immunity from prosecution. The reforms require the passage of an amendment to the US Constitution. The president also proposes limiting the term of office of supreme judges to 18 years and introducing a code of ethics for them. On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, rejected the reform proposal.
On July 21, Biden was forced, under pressure from fellow party members, to announce that he was withdrawing from the elections to be held in the United States on November 5. The Republican Party will be represented by Trump. It was after Biden's disastrous performance in the televised debate with Trump on June 27 that calls began to grow among Democrats for the president to abandon his bid for re-election. However, he insisted until the end that he did not intend to drop out of the fight. Biden endorsed the nomination of US Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for the highest government post.