Both of his prosecutions of Donald Trump — the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, and the insurrection case out of Washington, DC — will be delayed and diminished by Monday's United States Supreme Court's immunity decision, legal experts predict. The SCOTUS decision found that former presidents are presumptively immune from prosecution for acts they took while in office. That review of the insurrection case — by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and, likely, the Supreme Court once again — will take many months. Advertisement"The way the Supreme Court set up the new rule is that most everything the president does is 'presumptively immune,'" he said. By that new measure, any communication Trump has with another federal official is, for all practical purposes, immune from prosecution, he said.

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