Political activists called on Senator Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court to 13 judges at a July 2 rally at Grand Army Plaza.
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann
A day after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that Donald Trump — and future presidents — are immune from prosecution for any of their official acts in office, activists with Indivisible Brooklyn and Rise and Resist gathered for a rally at Grand Army Plaza, where they called on Sen. Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court.
Initial plans to protest outside the senate majority leader’s home in Park Slope were thwarted by NYPD officers, who barricaded three blocks out from the entrance, forcing protesters to hold the rally outside the barricades.
Addressing a crowd of close to 30 activists, INBK member Bryony Romer called the recent ruling a threat to the country’s democracy.
“If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now, expanding the court is the only route to protecting our democracy,” Romer said. “We need Chuck Schumer as our elected leader to come out and say so.”
Jay Walker, a member of political action group Rise and Resist, described the six conservative Supreme Court judges as “radicals tearing down the separation of powers.”
On June 28, the Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, limiting the broad regulatory authority of federal agencies and making it more challenging to regulate environmental protection, public health, worker protection, food and drug safety, telecommunications, and the financial sector, among others. And on Monday, they ruled that former presidents are…
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