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IN TRUMP CASES, SUPREME COURT CANNOT AVOID POLITICS

The justices’ efforts to remain unified in cases affecting the election are
fraying as the former president wins one case and is granted a delay in another.

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Recent attempts to make the Supreme Court seem above partisan politics are not
working.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times

By Adam Liptak

Reporting from Washington

March 5, 2024, 1:44 p.m. ET

In major cases concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court
has tried to put some distance between itself and politics. That fragile project
does not seem to be succeeding.

“If the court is trying to stay out of the political fray, it is failing
miserably,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University.

The case for attempted unity at the court in cases involving the former
president is built on 27 data points, or nine votes each in three important
rulings, all nominally unanimous. Those rulings suggest that the justices are
trying to find consensus and avoid politics.

There were no dissents, for instance, in Monday’s Supreme Court decision letting
Mr. Trump stay on ballots nationwide despite a constitutional provision that
bars insurrectionists from holding office.



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Nor were there noted dissents in December, when the court turned away a request
from government prosecutors to bypass a federal appeals court and render a
prompt decision on Mr. Trump’s audacious claim that he is immune from
prosecution on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election. That could have
ensured a trial well before the 2024 election.


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And there were, similarly, no noted dissents last week when that case returned
to the court after a unanimous three-judge panel of the appeals court soundly
rejected the immunity argument. The Supreme Court, after mulling what to do for
more than two weeks, decided to keep Mr. Trump’s trial on hold while it
considers the case, scheduling arguments for about seven weeks later and putting
the prospect of a trial verdict before the election in grave peril.

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Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar, a column on legal
developments. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years
before joining The Times in 2002. More about Adam Liptak

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