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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) waded into legal waters on Monday just moments after the conservative-majority Supreme Court gave Donald Trump — and the current president and presidents who will follow him — a stunning amount of immunity from criminal prosecution.

As multiple legal scholars noted, the 6-3 ruling opened the door for presidents to engage in criminal activity that could be construed as official activities by the nation's chief executive.

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett made clear Monday that she believes Donald Trump was acting outside his official duties when he sought out phony electors.

The former president's lawyers argued the selection of those alternate electors was consistent with his official duties to ensure the integrity of the federal election, but special counsel Jack Smith's team portrayed the scheme as a private action for his own benefit — and Barrett seems to agree.

A young activist interpreted Justice Sonia Sotomayor's chilling warning that the Supreme Court just authorized presidents to conduct political assassinations on social media — and received an equally chilling reply from former President Donald Trump's spokesperson.

"According to the Supreme Court, Biden could now send in Seal Team 6 to take all of them out," wrote Harry Sisson. "He could send in the military to take out Trump."

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appeared to casually end the independence of the Department of Justice in a ruling on Donald Trump's immunity.

The conservative majority ruled 6-3 that Trump enjoyed limited immunity for actions he undertook as president to remain in office despite his 2020 election loss, and the chief justice upended one of the agency's stated values of independence and impartiality.

Harvard University's Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe unleashed a ferocious attack on the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after the ruling in Donald Trump's immunity case Monday.

Tribe cited Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent, in which she called the decision a "five-alarm-fire for self-government under democracy. The reason is that the court was really flying the flag of the Constitution upside down."

The House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday in an effort to force him to turn over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.

The Republican-led panel asked the District of Columbia court to overrule the president's assertion of executive privilege and require the attorney general to hand over the recordings to Congress, which has already obtained transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter, reported CNN.

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, said she found Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opposition to a presidential immunity ruling "mind-blowing."

In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that presidents have immunity for official acts. The ruling sent special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump back to a lower court, where it faces an uphill battle.

Former President Donald Trump took to his personal social media site to claim that all of the trials against him should be dropped and civil cases overturned.

"Today’s Historic Decision by the Supreme Court should end all of Crooked Joe Biden’s Witch Hunts against me, including the New York Hoaxes - The Manhattan SCAM cooked up by Soros backed D.A., Alvin Bragg, Racist New York Attorney General Tish James’ shameless ATTACK on the amazing business that I have built, and the FAKE Bergdorf’s 'case,'" the ex-president rambled on TruthSocial.

Digging deeper into the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' majority ruling that handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin claimed the devil was in the details and the ruling is even worse than was initially reported.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katy Tur, Rubin held up a copy of the ruling and bluntly stated, "I want to put my voice in with Andrew's [Rosenberg's] choir here and say this is much more of a disaster than it might seem based on the rules that are being carved out here."

Far-right firebrand Steve Bannon was scheduled to report to prison on Monday, and his critics met the moment with mockery and laughter.

Real America's Voice, a pro-Trump streaming "channel," broadcast from the car Bannon was riding in the back seat of on the way to the Danbury correctional facility in Connecticut.

The Supreme Court ruling on former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim — which Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued turns the office into a kingship empowered to assassinate political rivals — effectively kills the federal court cases against him, one legal analyst argued Monday.

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl told viewers Monday morning that despite the majority's quibbling on absolute immunity — a decision on specifics was kicked down to a lower court — they had handed an out-and-out victory for Trump.

A Supreme Court decision that said presidents have immunity from prosecution for core official acts also quietly affirmed a Department of Justice rule against any prosecution of current presidents.

Journalist Michael Isikoff pointed out that the high court's decision on Monday included a vital footnote that would prevent special counsel Jack Smith from prosecuting Trump if he is reelected.