Neofascism: The very sharp Ed Luce gets this, I think, exactly right:

Ed Luce: ‘Only part of the US legal system showed it was working on Thursday…. The fact that Alvin Bragg, New York’s much-maligned public prosecutor, convincingly won his case, is a measure of why Trump has gone to such lengths to ensure the other trials do not happen before November…. The conservative-majority Supreme Court has been openly sympathetic to Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution for acts he committed as president, including the allegation that he tried to overthrow an election. The court’s delay on the immunity ruling has all but guaranteed Trump will not be tried before the election. That is a colossal failing of the US legal system. On Thursday, a New York jury showed that no man is above the law. Their fellow Americans could over-rule that in November. A majority of the country’s highest court are siding with Trump. But the only court that matters now is the polling booth. Until then, it is premature to say the US system is working… <ft.com/content/fdc03850…>

I think that if the Democrats hold the Senate and the Presidency and take the House, the Supreme Court needs to be expanded to 15 on January 21, 2025. And a job of “Vice Chief Justice” needs to be constructed to handle the substantive business of the court, with the Chief Justice’s role reserved to gaveling open—not scheduling—oral arguments, and calling on other justices in inverse order of seniority.