Trump legal cas­es in lim­bo after SCOTUS immu­ni­ty rul­ing, free­ing up sched­ule to cam­paign

For­mer Pres­i­dent Trump has had a num­ber of legal vic­to­ries in recent weeks, putting a pause on a major­i­ty of cas­es and delay­ing oth­ers that could have com­pli­cat­ed his cam­paign­ing dur­ing the gen­er­al elec­tion sea­son. The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Unit­ed States last month that a for­mer pres­i­dent has sub­stan­tial immu­ni­ty from pros­e­cu­tion for offi­cial acts in office but not for unof­fi­cial acts. The high court left it to the low­er court to deter­mine exact­ly where the line between offi­cial and unof­fi­cial is.“The Pres­i­dent there­fore may not be pros­e­cut­ed for exer­cis­ing his core con­sti­tu­tion­al pow­ers, and he is enti­tled, at a min­i­mum, to a pre­sump­tive immu­ni­ty from pros­e­cu­tion for all his offi­cial acts,” the major­i­ty opin­ion writ­ten by Chief Jus­tice John Roberts states. “That immu­ni­ty applies equal­ly to all occu­pants of the Oval Office, regard­less of pol­i­tics, pol­i­cy, or party.“The ques­tion of pres­i­den­tial immu­ni­ty stemmed from Spe­cial Coun­sel …