Supreme resis­tance: John Roberts and com­pa­ny immu­nize Trump from the Left’s law­fare

Since he depart­ed the White House, Don­ald Trump has faced a bar­rage of lit­i­ga­tion and judi­cial pro­ceed­ings across the coun­try. Some of it was civ­il, such as the New York attor­ney general’s suit against the Trump Orga­ni­za­tion for inflat­ing prop­er­ty val­u­a­tions, E. Jean Carroll’s defama­tion suit, and the gam­bit to use Sec­tion 3 of the 14th Amend­ment to kick Trump off the bal­lot. Pres­i­dents have faced civ­il actions before. Last year, how­ev­er, Trump became the first cur­rent or for­mer pres­i­dent to face crim­i­nal charges — not once, but four times over, in the Man­hat­tan hush mon­ey case, the Geor­gia false elec­tors case, the Wash­ing­ton, D.C., elec­tion inter­fer­ence case, and the Mar-a-Lago clas­si­fied doc­u­ments case. 
The aim of this legal maneu­ver­ing, which crit­ics have decried as “law­fare,” was to ren­der Trump une­lec­table by mir­ing him in court for most of 2024, mak­ing it all bu …