Donald Trump’s request to the Supreme Court on Wednesday may be one of the most provocative delay tactics to date, a CNN analysis reports..

In particular, Trump urged the high court not to hear his immunity case from federal prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office in a last-ditch effort to steer the legal system.

The move echoed Trump’s legal strategy in all of his criminal cases to date, to delay the process, ideally after the 2024 election.

The former president’s move comes less than a day after the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court which bars Trump from being on the state’s primary ballot, a decision he is also expected to appeal to the US Supreme Court.

That means the high court will have to consider next year whether Trump can be prosecuted for crimes committed after the 2020 election and whether his actions in office can prevent him from running for president.
It’s exactly the kind of chaos Trump thrives on — and he finds a way to turn everything to his advantage, CNN reports.

“It feeds on complaints like fire feeds on oxygen. And that’s going to end up being a complaint that helps him,” former Trump attorney general Bill Barr, who opposes Trump’s 2024 bid, told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

On Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request to bypass a federal appeals court and take over the case by deciding whether Trump, as president, has immunity from charges related to efforts to undermine the election after losing to Joe Biden in 2020. It’s a decision that could ultimately shape the former president’s legal fate.

The speed with which the Supreme Court will take up the case, which has been adjourned while the immunity issue is decided, will determine whether the case starts in March 2024, just before Super Tuesday, as Judge Tanya Chutkan has planned – or whether the case is adjourned until closer to or after November elections.

This is not the first time Trump has addressed the Supreme Court. After his 2020 election loss, he asked the justices – three of whom he appointed – to help overturn his defeat and publicly expressed his displeasure when they quickly dismissed a lawsuit challenging the election results.

Now Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, is seeking the Supreme Court’s help in his 2024 campaign — just weeks before the primaries. The Trump double trial puts the court – and the country – in an unprecedentedly chaotic position that is sure to ignite dissent regardless of how the court rules.

Colorado’s decision, where a 4-3 majority ruled that Trump participated in the riot and cannot be on the state’s primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment, once again overshadowed any other news about his primary. GOP.

It’s the same scenario that has played out after each of the four charges Trump faces, undermining any attempt by his opponents to win the spotlight.

Some of Trump’s opponents used arguments on the legitimacy of Trump’s candidacy, but once again they rallied to his defense despite the country’s judicial system.

Even former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who defended the special counsel’s charges against Trump, said the courts shouldn’t decide Trump’s electoral fate, voters should.

For his part, Biden did not dwell on the Colorado decision Wednesday, but took the opportunity to accuse Trump of participating in an insurgency.

The president’s comments reminded that in 2020 it will monopolize the confrontation between the two candidates for the presidency even if other issues were at the center of their election campaigns.

“I think it goes without saying” that Trump was involved in the riot, Biden told reporters upon his arrival in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

“Whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision,” Biden said. “But he certainly supported a rebellion. There is no question about it. None. Zero.”