This session was a big power grab for the courts all around. Even the apparent increase in power for the President—significant de jure, and very broad de facto

This session was a big power grab for the courts all around. Even the apparent increase in power for the President—significant de jure, and very broad de facto immunity from the law—is largely an increase in power for the courts, since they may now selectively apply the law to a President. The Supreme Court (ultimately) now decides not whether a President is guilty of, say, murder committed while in office, but whether they may even be tried for it. Though, yeah, it’s gonna gum up the works in a big way. I wonder if they’ll see a budget increase and large increase in the number of (lower) court judges (so, new appointments) if the elections go a certain way in November.