Why the Supreme Court Ignored the Trump Prosecution Timeline

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : It requires a combination of armchair psychology and conclusory narrative generation to argue that the Court somehow wanted to do Trump a solid, and decided to take the immunity case just to prevent a pre-election trial.
40% : The justices might not issue a final ruling at all, and could instead send the case back down to the trial court to determine whether Trump acted within the scope of his job as president.
34% : It's now all but certain that the Manhattan DA's indictment of Trump for falsifying business records around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels will begin later this month, on March 25.
33% : And while the result may be disappointing to many - heck, I'd like to see Trump tried before the election, too - it's also the only proper way for judges to do their jobs.
32% : There's nothing Trump can do to help or hurt any of them, even if he's re-elected.
31% : Trump likely will still face at least one trial before the election, but it's probably not going to be The Big One in DC.
29% : The justices all have life tenure, of course, and they don't owe Trump a thing; I suspect that, if anything, they all see him fundamentally as a clown (except maybe Clarence Thomas, he might be genuinely enamored).
23% : Trump might well get convicted - most criminal defendants lose at trial, and a Manhattan jury will be decidedly hostile - but he likely won't face jail time, and it's questionable whether the verdict will have substantial political impact on undecided or swing voters.
18% : I'll hear an argument that Smith should push Trump to trial before the election because voters need to know if Trump is guilty before they vote.

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