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Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Monday or Tuesday, I guess, when you're listening to this.

Obviously, we're not listening to this. Obviously,

we're not going to be doing a podcast Friday because it's the day after July 4th and because

we just got the long-awaited, much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling on immunity. And wow,

do I have some thoughts? Without further ado, let's get into this week's piece.

We now have the Supreme Court's immunity decision, and wow. In large part, it's what we expected and forecasted before in this podcast. But the court's opinion expands presidential

powers and bolsters Trump's legal defenses substantially more than anybody reasonably

predicted. There's a lot here, so let's break down today's decision. Here are the

biggest takeaways. Number one, criminal immunity exists. This is in itself a headline. We've

recognized civil immunity protecting federal officials from lawsuits for their official on-the-job

actions since the 1982 Supreme Court decision Nixon v. Fitzgerald.

But until today, it remained an open question whether there even was such a thing as criminal

immunity. Now we know there is. Second of all, criminal immunity is not blanket or absolute,

but it's pretty darn broad. Now, this has mostly been a problem of nomenclature.

It's easy to scoff at a claim that the president is immune, absolutely, for everything he

does from the moment he takes the oath of office at noon on January 20th until his term ends four

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