The Supreme Court made history this week issuing a landmark ruling, one that dramatically

expands the power of the presidency and helps to protect Donald Trump from criminal prosecution.

Tonight, what the court's decision means for the 2024 presidential race

and for the future of our democracy itself.

Next. This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

It's been a tumultuous and unsettling time in the nation's capital

a week after what could be one of the most

important debates in American presidential history the Supreme Court rules that

Donald Trump is substantially immune to charges that he tried to overturn the last

election joining me tonight to discuss this charges that he tried to overturn the last election.

Joining me tonight to discuss this, Dan Bals, the chief

correspondent at the Washington Post.

Joan Biscupik is the senior Supreme Court analyst for CNN

and the author of Nine Black Robes inside the Supreme Court's

drive to the right and its historic consequences.

Jen Crawford is the chief legal correspondent for CBS News, and Charlie Savage is a correspondent for the New York

Times. Thanks all for being here. Charlie I'm going to start with you because the only

person who doesn't have chief in your title and so you know we want to we want to

get you in. But before we get you in, I want you all

to watch this just as a kind of a table setter.

But when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

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