The last week of June 2024 has the potential to be a very consequential moment in American history. Monday it was announced that the United States Supreme Court would extend its season into July, which could very well mean that the decision in one of the most important cases of our lifetime is only days or perhaps hours away.

Will SCOTUS grant Donald J. Trump immunity from the criminal repercussions of his actions after the November 2020 election season, up to and including the Capitol Hill insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021? Should future occupants of the Oval Office receive total immunity from the criminality that they may commit while president?

The immunity issue is a last-ditch effort by Trump to skip out of the clutches of Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents federal case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ election interference case in Atlanta, and U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s slippery docket. If SCOTUS decides in Trump’s favor, each of those cases die a quick death, and from here on it could very well be the Wild, Wild West in the White House. This is what the justices must consider as they prepare to issue their decision this week or next. Their conservative wing’s record of late has tipped the scales of justice from being blind to partisan.

It would still come as a surprise, a blatant decision in favor of Trump’s argument that he should not be criminally charged for deceptively hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Largo home in Florida, or for attempting to steal the election from then president-elect Joe Biden, by requesting Georgia election officials “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” when he knew that he had lost and admitted as much in private.

Will SCOTUS side with the newly convicted felon? 

With the court’s June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, the first real wave of the MAGA Republican, Christian Nationalist tsunami shocked women of all ethnicities as it triggered abortion bans and restrictions to women’s reproductive health care across the country, most notably in the South. In his concurrence with the 2022 ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas opined that “the purported right to abortion is not a form of ‘liberty’ protected by the Due Process Clause” of the United States Constitution.

This line opens the door to other central SCOTUS decisions made by previous justices to be argued and possibly overturned in a much similar fashion. That presents possibly arguments soon against court established “liberties” such as equal rights in public education, the end of discriminatory practices, and same sex marriage.

In essence, what Thomas initiated was a “call to action” for all MAGA think tanks and billion-dollar donors to bring to the lower courts challenges that when shot down, become a springboard to SCOTUS where the likelihood of Justices Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Barrett all concurring, and Chief Justice John Roberts throwing one in for the team, are high. That is the formula, and it is working. When Louisiana MAGA Republican Gov. Jeff Landry last week signed H.B. 71 into law requiring all public schools to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom beginning Jan. 1, he was heard saying at a political fundraiser “I can’t wait to be sued.” Why?

Perhaps it is because of the MAGA leaning justices have emboldened him to place the religious ideation of Christian fundamentalist politicking ahead of the educational crisis that looms over his state. Louisiana was ranked near bottom in a 2022 study of public school systems in all 50 states. Will a dose of religiosity help to keep Louisiana students from dropping out of school which led to the poor ranking of 47?

This is where we are in this last week in June 2024. We are the witnesses and occasionally participants in the slow dismantling of democracy in what has become an upside-down, topsy-turvy society.

On June 27, CNN will host the first presidential debate of the election season in which President Joe Biden will meet arch enemy Trump.