Trump Secures His Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
The Court has rescued the former president from facing trial before the election for his attack on democracy.
When the Supreme Court agreed to take up the question of whether Donald Trump is shielded from prosecution over his role in January 6, two core questions were at stake. First was the substantive matter of whether the Court would find that presidential immunity protected a former chief executive from some measure of criminal accountability for engineering an insurrection. And second was the issue of whether the delay in Trump’s case caused by the Court—the additional months that it took for the justices to receive briefing, hear arguments, and muse over the finer
