The US Supreme Court has been accused of playing a partisan role by “slow-walking” Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case to reduce the chances of a trial before the election.
The court is expected to deliver a ruling imminently on whether the office of president gives Trump legal protection from the most serious criminal charges against him over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Its decision to take up the immunity case, and then fail to decide on it for at least four months, has put criminal proceedings on hold and makes it unlikely that it will come to court before the election in November, in line with Trump’s defence strategy.
Trump campaigning in Philadelphia at the weekend
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The delay contrasts with the two months it took the court to deliver