Here’s How the Supreme Court Can Doom Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial

The US Supreme Court’s handling of Donald Trump’s criminal immunity bid has cast new doubt over efforts to put the former president on trial for 2020 election interference before voters go to the polls again in November.

The court’s decision to hear Trump’s arguments in late April hints that the justices — three of whom Trump appointed — aren’t in a rush to decide on the immunity case and could even wait until the end of their term in late June, putting the feasibility of a pre-election trial at risk. In assessing whether Trump should stay on the presidential ...