There’s Time for Supreme Court Rulings on Trump: Noah Feldman

Don’t blame the Supreme Court if it takes a modest amount of time to rule on and reject former president Donald Trump’s criminal immunity claim. The issue is the kind of nationally important one that the court should address in some detail. Special prosecutor Jack Smith could, and should, have brought the charges a year earlier, not on the cusp of the election season.

To be sure, the justices should still decide the case expeditiously, so that a trial can begin this spring, not this summer. A reasonably quick decision is also needed in the Colorado case about whether states ...