WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden addressed the nation on July 1 to express his disappointment with the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts, claiming that it “undermines the rule of law of this nation.”
“This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” President Biden said, speaking from the Cross Hall at the White House.
“Each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States. But [with] today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed,” he charged….