The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court dealt a victory Wednesday to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to delay the criminal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, setting arguments for late April.

The action injects immediate uncertainty into the legal and political calendar over the next several months. It raises the potential that a trial could collide with the final stretch of the 2024 election — but also the potential that a federal trial that had initially been set for March might not take place this year at all.

That could mean that the election this fall might happen without a jury ever being asked to decide whether Trump is criminally responsible for efforts to undo an election he lost in the weeks leading up to the violent Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Of the four criminal cases Trump faces, the only one with a trial date that seems poised to hold is a New York state prosecution charging him with falsifying business records in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star, slated to begin in late March.

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