The Supreme Court’s Trump-Immunity Decision Was a Public Service

While the result of the Court’s decision may be to preserve Trump’s freedom from jail, its greater consequence is to protect the liberty of us all.

President Joseph Biden’s attack this week on the Supreme Court got at least one thing right. Trump v. United States’ finding of presidential immunity will have profound effects, both short- and long-term, on our constitutional order. Combined with last week’s Fischer v. United States, which threw out the main obstruction charge against the January 6 rioters, Trump tears the heart out of the special-counsel prosecution of the former president for his...