Did the Supreme Court just give President Biden the green light to assassinate Trump with seal team six?

That has actually become one of the main questions following the Supreme Court ruling six to three in the decision along ideological lines.

It's actually a huge win for Trump.

With them ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution.

Although there's some caveats such as the fact that the immunity can only apply to clearly official acts.

When you hear that, you go, okay, well, what is a clearly official act?

And there, the court decided to do the super fun thing by not defining what that meant and what constitutes an official act.

Instead, that'll be left up to lower courts to figure out the details.

And so the new immunity standard means that the president is presumed to have it, although the stance wasn't shared by all the conservative justices. Right, Barrett, instead wanted the court to take a two-step standard when considering whether a

president is immune from prosecution, you know, whether a statute actually applies to what the

president did, and whether it would interfere with the powers of the president while in office.

But really, other than that small difference, the decision was a huge expansion of the president's

immunity. Previously, it was just thought that they were barred from prosecution while in office other than with impeachments.

Which is why we saw special counsel, Jack Smith, argued that a former president had no immunity as long as a prosecutor got an indictment from a grand jury.

But now, you know, former presidents have a huge shield against prosecution, and the bar for overcoming it is really high.

Because you'd need to show that what the president did wasn't a clearly official act. And what's big and wild here is that this is just the second decision today that could affect Trump's prosecution. Because before they dropped this decision, the court had handed down a ruling that severely narrowed the scope of an obstruction law that prosecutors were sometimes using to go after January 6th insurrectionists. Without also being a six to three decision, but with a twist, because Jackson voted with the conservatives while Barrett voted with the liberals. So another question with all this is like, taken together,

what does this mean for the case against Trump? And there, well, it doesn't completely kill it.

First up, the court rejected his arguments that only presidents who were impeached and removed

from office could be prosecuted. So instead, the presidential immunity case will likely result in

Trump and Smith arguing to lower courts over whether Trump's actions to appoint fake electors to hand him the 2020 presidential election was an official act.

Also, even before the court made their obstruction ruling, Smith was arguing that Trump's efforts

to send fake electors that clearly falls under evidence tampering sections of the obstruction

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