On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States turned the idea that “all men are created equal,” that the United States was to be land of law not kings, on its head, according to historian Heather Cox Richardson. The Court ruled that a president might have immunity if “illegal acts” occurred during undefined official duties. “Richard Nixon would have had a pass,” John Dean, Nixon’s White House Counsel, said on a call with reporters on Monday. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called the ruling a “five-alarm fire that threatens to consume democratic self-governance” in her dissent. Richard…