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After a federal appellate court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution for his actions on and leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, it is not necessarily the end of the road for Trump’s legal team in terms of further appeals. But it should be.
There are likely more appeals coming of this ruling, but, ultimately, the Supreme Court should do what it does with thousands of cases every year: it should simply refuse to hear the case, let the lower court’s decision stand, and let the trial court get back to work.
Trump’s legal team has had one goal in mind in defending the former president against the 90-plus felony charges he presently faces: delay. The effort to appeal the decision on immunity was quixotic at best; frivolous at worst.