The legislation, which two centrists indicated to POLITICO has no shot at passing, would allow both current and former presidents to move state cases to federal courts.
House Republican leaders are privately gauging support for legislation that would let both current and former presidents move a state case to federal courts, four Republicans familiar with the effort confirmed to POLITICO. It already seems dead in the water. Republicans have vowed to use their slim majority to avenge former President Donald Trump after he was convicted on 34 felony counts in a Manhattan hush money trial last week.
” As another centrist Republican viewed it: “I think there’s a lack of support for it” and that they are making sure leadership is aware. “I heard a bunch of folks have said they’re reluctant.” If leaders do feel it has enough support in their two-seat margin — a big if, at this point — it could come to the House floor as soon as next week.
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