The US supreme court’s decision last month to hear Donald Trump’s claims that he cannot be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election marked the court’s direct entry into the 2024 presidential election. The decision to hear the case and delay his criminal trial in Washington DC was unquestionably one of Trump’s biggest legal victories to date.
Fending off the 91 criminal charges against him, the cornerstone of Trump’s legal strategy has been to