The Supreme Court’s Effort to Save Trump Is Already Working
The conservative justices created so many avenues for challenge and confusion that the Court functionally collaborated in Trump’s strategy of delay.
Quinta Jurecic
Quinta Jurecic is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously worked as Lawfare’s managing editor and as an editorial writer for The Washington Post. She is a co-host of The Lawfare Podcast’s “Arbiters of Truth” series on misinformation and disinformation, social-media platforms, and the online information ecosystem. Her writing focuses on politics, democracy, the rule of law, and the internet.
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