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What the Supreme Court’s Trump-Immunity Ruling Means for 2024

“[The Court’s] own power is also enhanced by the fact that it will be judges deciding what are official or unofficial acts.”

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The Supreme Court made history this week by issuing a landmark ruling that dramatically expands the power of the presidency and helps protect Donald Trump from criminal prosecution.

“What this Supreme Court has done, not just for the presidential power but for its own power, is big,” Joan Biskupic of CNN told the editor in chief of The Atlantic and Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg. “Its own power is also enhanced by the fact that it will be judges deciding what are official or unofficial acts.”

Joining Goldberg to discuss this development and more are Bikuspic, Dan Balz of The Washington Post, Jan Crawford of CBS News, and Charlie Savage of The New York Times.

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