 members of the federal judiciary remember it was justice roberts who saved obamacare way back when justice roberts has a view of the court that it should be minimalist in how it approaches decisions it should draw decisions as narrowly as possible so in this particular case he said okay we're going to try to create some sort of system some sort of framework for thinking about when the president is immune from criminal liability and when he is not but we're going to restrict our judgment to very specific aspects of the charges being brought against trump