@Grandalf@aus.social Well not quite.
SCOTUS can basically do anything it wants--such is the nature of an independent judiciary--but most importantly in this case the Court is free to go through common procedure of saying that appellate courts should first rule and then maybe the Supreme Court will review the appellate court rulings.
That would actually be the normal course of business so it is definitely on the table.
But it also doesn't make a president a king to say that they are immune from future prosecution.
Presidents are still subject to impeachment and removal from office, which a king is certainly not, and presidents still have to deal with the other two branches of government.
They are not kings regardless of what the Supreme Court might say here.
The US government was specifically set up with checks against that kind of thing, and it's just not an option on the table. It does no good to sensationalize this legal dispute.
Really it only plays into Trump's hands as his supporters love this stuff.
