Justice Sotomayor: The Supreme Court has made Trump 'a king above the law'

The Supreme Court just gave convicted felon Donald Trump everything he wanted. In a 6-3 decision issued Monday, the court’s six conservative justices granted him sweeping immunity from key elements of the federal Jan. 6 case against him, all wrapped up in a flimsy conceit that the lower courts need to take it back to reconsider precisely what conduct he can be prosecuted for. More than that, however, the six conservatives just upended democracy.

It’s a five-alarm fire, Justice Sonia Sotomayor essentially says, in what Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern calls “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I've ever encountered.”