There has been plenty of criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision granting former President Trump nearly total immunity for crimes connected to attempted subversion of the 2020 presidential election, but most of it stops short of the logical conclusion.
The opinion in Trump v. United States has been called “utterly circular, [tossing] aside the conservatives’ purported adherence to the plain text and meaning of the Constitution.” It has been described as a “decision of surpassing recklessness...