Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melber. It's the first full day

following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity that critics say puts

American democracy at risk. And already today, as nonpartisan experts

warned that a would-be autocrat would be newly

empowered to wield power without checks,

Donald Trump's MAGA allies are saying that he knows it.

This morning, Axios reporting that Trump is planning, quote,

to immediately test the boundaries

of presidential and governing power

if he retakes the White House because he knows the restraints

of Congress and the courts are dramatically looser than during his first term.

That is the context for this striking imagery, a future Trump wearing a gold crown

under the headline, Imperial Presidency in waiting.

The Washington Post with a slightly less dramatic but still jarring headline.

Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling poses risk for democracy, experts say.

The New York Times dubbing the ruling from

conservative justices a quote extraordinary expansion of executive power.

Multiple reports indicate Trump's imperial presidency, as Acyos is calling it, would involve an

unprecedented power grab in which he would turn the Justice Department against critics

to port millions of people in the United States illegally, slap 10%

tariffs on thousands of products and fire perhaps tens of thousands of government staff

deemed insufficiently loyal.

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