Today the Supreme Court made a momentous decision, one that has significant implications for the rule of law in this country.

At 5 PM Eastern, this afternoon, the Supreme Court agreed to take up former President Trump's

claims of presidential immunity. These are not credible claims that has been

thoroughly litigated in both Federal district court and federal appellate court.

By merely deciding to do this though, setting aside whatever the court's final ruling is,

the court has essentially upended the attempt to hold Donald Trump accountable for his actions to

subvert democracy.

In fact, the court may have ended that attempt entirely.

This decision is also certain to reshape the 2024 presidential race and it will likely play a determinative role in its outcome.

But as much as the oral arguments in the case the week of April 22nd. Now April 22nd is not

close to today and we'll get into why exactly the court didn't choose a date that

is a lot sooner than that.

But April 22nd also on its face sort of seems pretty far from the November election.

It's not.

Because when you start crunching the numbers and looking at how a trial could actually

time out after the Supreme Court makes its decision here, the window in which Trump could

face trial, the window for that happening before the November election is incredibly

small. The first thing you have to take into account is that the prep time that the

judge who is overseeing this case, Judge Tanya Chutkin, the prep time she

allotted for Trump and his lawyers has been effectively stalled. Judge

Shutkin initially gave Donald Trump and his legal team seven months to prepare for this case, from the day

he was indicted to the original trial date in March.

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