Hello and welcome to prosecuting Donald Trump. It is Monday, July 1st, the last day of the Supreme Court term, and I'm Andrew

Weisman. I'm here with my co-host Mary. Hi Mary.

Hey Andrew, I was about to say good morning, but it's not morning anymore.

Yes, it's 105. The two of us have been speed reading this morning because as anyone who is listening to this knows the Supreme Court has

issued its decision in the presidential immunity case and that is something we're going

to spend a whole episode talking about,

going through the decision, the majority, the dissents.

We also have a guest.

Somebody who people may remember, he's an expert on presidential immunity Trevor Morrison but first

Mary and I are going to talk about that decision so Mary I'm going to turn it to you because

this is one doozy of a decision.

How do you want to start us off?

Yeah, I mean, you know, we could go through, you know, what the majority held,

or we could have some observations, which is what I'm going to do about sort of a open

question I think in my mind about how narrow or how broad this ruling is because the chief justice who wrote for the majority

wants to try to tamp down any fear-mongering that this is really the end of

democracy because it's elevating presidents above the law.

And the dissent to the contrast are saying, oh no, no, no, this is exceedingly broad and

it basically gives, I mean, Justice Sotomayor and also Justice Jackson in a separate

dissent both go back to the examples that Florence Pan, a judge on the DC

Circuit, raised with Mr. Trump's attorney during oral argument on this

case in the DC Circuit, could a president order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political

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