Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that there is no immunity from criminal prosecution for an act on the grounds that such act was within the constitutional authority or official duties of an individual, and providing that the President may not grant a pardon to himself or herself.
Key claim: A proposed constitutional amendment would bar immunity from criminal prosecution for acts claimed to be within official duties and prohibit the President from pardoning himself or herself.
Abstract
(HJRES108 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2025-07-22): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Why this matters
The proposal targets the criminal-immunity doctrine articulated in Trump v. United States (2024) and the unresolved question of presidential self-pardons, seeking to place those limits beyond judicial reinterpretation via constitutional text. For affected groups, it would preserve criminal accountability pathways for high officials—relevant to due-process, anti-corruption, and equal-treatment concerns—though as a constitutional amendment it faces the two-thirds/three-fourths ratification threshold and remains at an early introduction stage.