that the Supreme Court could decide 2024. I want to understand that. I'm just in the middle of reading it right now, but why would that be maddening in the case, in this case that it's eligibility that's the question.

I actually think it's a pretty simple question and not a political one.

Yeah, well I mean however one sort of approaches the question of the eligibility and the merits of that question,

the point that I wanted to sort of try to sort of help readers work through is kind of where we are at this very odd moment in America. This is a Supreme Court right that in the last

couple of years has totally upended the law on abortion, on voting rights, on gun rights,

you know, the Second Amendment, and all that.

And there was a period of time, you may remember,

I'm sure you folks were talking about it quite a bit,

after the 2020 election,

where there were people clamoring for Supreme Court reform, right, expanding the court and closing term limits.

The Biden administration sort of took a pass on that.

They had this sort of commission that produced a report that was like sort of promptly

forgotten. And you know last year that

Supreme Court tanked his his signature domestic policy initiative the student loan

relief initiative those same people now are going to be addressing this disqualification

issue. And you know, so you have that being a very peculiar element to all this. And then

second, you know, the Supreme Court also has to consider this issue of whether or not Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution, and that is now introducing a delay in the calendar and a question about when this criminal trial might occur.

But as, you know, we've talked about before, you know the Justice

Department's sort of original sin here was not investigating and moving

as prosecution along more quickly. There is another world in which you know Jack Smith or someone

else had been given the same mandate in early 2021 you know Trump could have

been charged in mid-2020-22 we could have have seen a trial, potentially a conviction last year, with the political

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