This Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court — where three nominees from Donald Trump when he was in office as president are currently serving among the nine members — granted some level of legal immunity to Trump and other holders of the presidency, ruling that those elected to the office were broadly protected from criminal prosecution for “official” acts.

Trump was trying to use the arguments to entirely end a criminal case that he’s currently facing accusing him of conspiring against the 2020 presidential election results, which the court did not do. Instead, up next is a process of determining whether conduct that’s alleged of Trump falls within the legal protections newly outlined by the Supreme Court’s conservative-leaning majority. Still, Justice Sonia Sotomayor — among the Supreme Court members known as liberal — argued that Trump got what he wanted in the majority’s decision-making on Monday.

“In short, America has traditionally relied on the law to keep its Presidents in line,” wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to that court by current President Joe Biden.

“Starting today, however, Americans must rely on the courts to determine when (if at all) the criminal laws that their representatives have enacted to promote individual and collective security will operate as speedbumps to Presidential action or reaction. Once selfregulating, the Rule of Law now becomes the rule of judges, with courts pronouncing which crimes committed by a President have to be let go and which can be redressed as impermissible. So, ultimately, this Court itself will decide whether the law will be any barrier to whatever course of criminality emanates from the Oval Office in the future. The potential for great harm to American institutions and Americans themselves is obvious.”

She added that “because the risks (and power) the Court has now assumed are intolerable, unwarranted, and plainly antithetical to bedrock constitutional norms, I dissent.”

Perhaps most immediate is that the need for additional proceedings in Trump’s case before trial delays any such trial even further, and if it goes beyond the election with Trump winning that face-off, it could all go on ice indefinitely.