Honest answer: we don’t fucking know. The discarding of Chevron, coupled with the determination a rule may be challenged from the moment of harm and not from the moment the rule was made, throws more or less the entirety of administrative law - the basis of a regulatory system - into flux.
Like, when I say the impact of the last week of rulings can’t be understated, I mean it because Chevron was like…a foundational thing for administrative law for the last four decades.
Add into that the determination that we can’t prosecute a president who commits a crime if it’s an official act, coupled with the absolute lack of definition as to what constitutes an official act, and we have no fucking clue.
Also, little pissed the reasoning for the latter was “We don’t want a president to be concerned about criminal culpability because it may stop them from acting!” and I mean, actually, yes, I want our executive to be considering whether they’re breaking the fucking law before acting.
The “nuclear time bomb will go off if we don’t torture this guy!” remedy was always meant to be getting pardoned by the next Pres if it was really justified, I thought
