US Supreme Court's slow pace on immunity makes Trump trial before election unlikely

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : The Supreme Court already has handed Trump important victories.
44% : Chutkan has previously indicated she would give Trump at least three months to prepare for a trial once the case returns to her courtroom.
43% : A trial so close to Election Day would almost certainly draw claims of election interference from Trump and his legal team.
38% : The ruling from the court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three justices appointed by Trump, will be released 20 weeks after he sought relief from the justices.
34% : The timeline of the ruling likely does not leave enough time for Special Counsel Jack Smith to try Trump on the federal four-count indictment obtained last August and for a jury to reach a verdict before voters head to the polls.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty and called the case politically motivated.
34% : And now the ruling will be issued on the final day of the term, nearly nine months after Trump first made a motion to dismiss the charges based on his claim of immunity.
33% : The trial judge also likely will have to decide what, if any, impact the Supreme Court's decision to heighten the legal standard for prosecutors pursuing obstruction charges against a Jan. 6 defendant will have on Trump, who faces two charges under the same obstruction law.
29% : Rather than resolve the matter promptly, the justices denied Smith's request and let the case proceed in a lower court, which upheld Chutkan's ruling against Trump on Feb. 6.After Trump sought Supreme Court relief on Feb. 12, more than 10 weeks elapsed before the justices would heard the case on April 25, their final day of arguments.
28% : "Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Joe Biden in a 2020 election rematch.
28% : In March, the court threw out a judicial decision that had disqualified Trump from the presidential primary ballot in Colorado.
28% : Trump opposed the bid.
27% : If he regains the presidency, Trump could try to force an end to the special counsel's case or potentially pardon himself for any federal crimes.
26% : On Friday, it raised the legal bar for prosecutors pursuing obstruction charges in the federal election subversion case against Trump and defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
26% : "Even if the Supreme Court were to affirm the lower courts and say that Trump does not have immunity, the trial court still has to decide a bunch of other legal issues.
24% : Under one such scenario, the justices could order Chutkan to preside over a potentially time-consuming legal battle about whether certain allegations against Trump must be stricken before the case could advance to trial.

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