Former Trump aides are asking for the Supreme Court’s help as their ex-boss eyes the White House

As former President Donald Trump turns to the final days of his campaign for a second term in the White House, some of his ex-aides are trying to get into another building in Washington: the Supreme Court.

As former President Donald Trump turns to the final days of his campaign for a second term in the White House, some of his ex-aides are trying to get into another building in Washington: the Supreme Court. Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is urging the justices to yank the Georgia election subversion case against him into federal court. His former trade advisor, Peter Navarro, wants the Supreme Court to wade into a fight over presidential records he kept on his private email. On Monday, the high court brushed aside a lawsuit from Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who alleged his ex-boss retaliated against him for promoting a tell-all book. The appeals – some more serious than others – reflect the chaotic cast of characters that surrounded the Republican nominee during his four years in office, many of whom remain in serious legal jeopardy. Some may hope that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative supermajority will take a sympathetic view of those who, at least at one point, were close to a president who named three of the nine justices. But while Trump scored a major legal victory from that majority in July when it found former presidents are entitled to sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution, his former aides – so far – haven’t fared nearly as well. “The court does not want to deal with any of these cases,” predicted Timothy Johnson, a professor of political science and law at the University of Minnesota. The Trump immunity ruling, he said, demonstrated that the court’s conservatives “are very interested in presidential power but not in executive branch power.”