On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided that the criminal trial in Washington, DC, about Trump's effort to rig the 2020 presidential election, had to be postponed for a minimum of two more months. By an order issued in December, the Court essentially postponed his trial for a further two and a half months.

Trump has achieved a huge win with this order, which may spare him from prosecution for his efforts to rig the 2020 election completely. Trump wants to postpone his legal proceedings until after the election. If he wins that election, he will then have the authority to direct the Justice Department to dismiss any federal charges brought against him.

Trump took advantage of the federal judiciary's custom of prohibiting two courts from having concurrent jurisdiction over the same matter in order to get an order of this kind from the justices. Therefore, the trial court frequently forfeits its jurisdiction over a matter until the appeal is settled when a party to a lawsuit or criminal process challenges the trial court's ruling.

The trial was put on hold by the court ostensibly because it needed more time to evaluate a weak appeal against a decision made by Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution in Washington, DC. Trump claims that any prosecution of a former president for any "official acts" he performed while in office is prohibited by the Constitution. This argument has amazing ramifications, which Trump's attorneys haven't exactly done their best to downplay.

In a court proceeding, the attorney for the former president informed the judge that Trump would not face legal consequences even if he had given the order for "SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival," unless the Senate also impeached and found Trump guilty. Considering that two lower courts have previously rejected this argument, it is difficult to see the Supreme Court adopting it.

However, Trump has now used Wednesday's decision to his advantage to push back his trial in the District of Columbia by at least four and a half months. This delay will probably go much longer as the Court will need time to issue an opinion. Oral arguments will be heard by the Court in late April.

In other words, anyone thinking that Trump would go to trial before the November election would be devastated by Wednesday's ruling. Furthermore, this decision casts severe doubt on the Court's ability to monitor Trump-related matters in an unbiased manner, given that the order's stated goal is to allow the justices more time to determine whether or not the president is above the law.