Donald Trump spent years being bitterly mad at a Supreme Court majority and a conservative legal movement that did not work hard enough to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. But ahead of the 2024 election, the court seems to be making up for his troubles. The high court has issued a series of rulings boosting Trump’s presidential campaign — with none more consequential than its immunity decision Monday.
“It’s like Christmas,” a conservative attorney close to Trump tells Rolling Stone on Monday afternoon. According to three sources familiar with the situation, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Trump’s expansive presidential immunity arguments was a far bigger victory for Team Trump than they ever expected. But the former president and his inner circle aren’t content to stop at victory-lapping.
Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say. For months, Trump and his legal and political counselors were predicting that the court would reject Trump and his attorneys’ claims of “absolute” immunity — which Trump’s lawyer claimed would apply even if the president were to order the assassination of a political rival. Still, the Trumpworld elite were banking on partial victories: They figured the case would keep his federal election-interferen.
