The core problem with the Court's conservative majority is that they insist they are "formalists" but then go ahead and invent rules out of whole cloth that appear nowhere in the Constitution—and often are contradicted by its text.
The Constitution says that in cases of impeachment, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." It does not except the president. But what impeachable offenses aren't covered by the new doctrine of immunity?
