Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Ryan Ryan nobles on an historic day here in Washington

and for the nation as the Supreme Court issues a decision that has dramatically

raised the stakes in the 2024 election by significantly broadening and insulating the

immense powers of the presidency. In a major legal victory for Donald Trump, the

High Court granted the former president and also the current president and future

presidents criminal immunity for official presidential acts. The court

also left it up to the district court overseeing the former president's election interference case to determine

what actions by Mr. Trump were not official acts when he tried to overturn the 2020 election.

The ruling all but assures that the presumptive

Republican nominee will not stand trial in that case until after election day.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority in the 6-3 decision

describing an expansive view of presidential conduct that is presumed immune.

Right in quote, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity

from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office.

Adding later that this immunity must be absolute when it comes to a

president's core responsibilities. The opinion also sets a high bar to challenge

that immunity with the Chief Justice explaining that the President must therefore be immune

from prosecution for an official act,

unless the government can show that applying a criminal prohibition to that act would pose no dangers of

intrusion on the authority and functions of the executive branch. As sweeping as

today's majority decision was. A scathing dissenting opinion written by Justice

Sonia Sotomayor warned that the president of the United States is the most

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