The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up former Trump’s presidential immunity appeal with oral arguments slated for the week of April 22, 2024, meaning the trial in his election interference case in the lower court will remain on hold. This means Trump is immune because the case won’t go to trial before the election even though Weissmann believes the court is going to eventually rule against him, Weissman asserted on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“I’m very pessimistic … I think ultimately, they will not grant immunity in this case, but they have given him the win because the D.C. case, let’s just face it, is on life support now,” Weissmann said. “It is really, really hard to figure out how this case gets to trial before the election. I think that’s the end result of what they did here. So they may ultimately say that he does not have immunity, but, in fact, he will have been given immunity because the case will not go to trial before the election, meaning if Joe Biden wins, the case goes forward but if he loses, the case is over.”
It also benefits Trump’s campaign rhetoric because he can persist in criticizing the case as political weaponization without a jury ruling on it ahead of the election, Weissmann added.
