In a stunning finale to its term on Monday morning, the US Supreme Court delivered a gift of inestimable worth to Donald Trump and all future presidents who intend to violate the law and their oaths to the Constitution. In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority said that official acts that are central to the presidency are given “absolute immunity” from prosecution. Other acts, even those that reach to the outer edge of a president’s official duties, are “presumptively immune”, the court said, making them much harder to be prosecuted.