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.
I just realized Trump is going to start working an immunity bit into his rallies. “I’m immune! Immune. I like that word. Which I always was. And it’s so necessary. So necessary. Presidents have to have immunity” [plays invisible accordion, eyelids flutter]
Thomas is one of those Marilyn Manson guys who was misunderstood but still awful. He wasn't a puppet of Scalia, he was genuinely always an authoritarian monster in his own right.
