This is the through-line for me, in all those Alliance Defending Freedom cases where a notional future inconvenience to some bigot overturns settled law and in this Trump ruling. The mere possibility of repercussions against any favored group outweighs all the rights everyone else currently has.
The lesson Roberts and Thomas draw from the unprecedented nature of Trump's indictments is not that he's a unique threat (as per all available evidence). The real threat to "liberty" is the possibility that, someday, the most powerful person on earth could, in theory, be unjustly accused of a crime.
