“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” —Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

In Trump v. United States, a partisan Supreme Court (6-3) severely undermined a bedrock principle in our constitutional republic that no person is above the law with its made-out-of-whole cloth decision that presidents have absolute immunity for so-called official acts. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the six Republican appointed justices of crowning the president a “king above the law.” Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, also in dissent, accused the majority of planting “the seeds of absolute power.”