Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."
It’s frustrating that the most serious charge against the former president, his involvement in Jan. 6, is taking this long to resolve. But that’s not the justices’ fault.
An obscure 19th century precedent seems a likely escape hatch for justices that would prefer not to declare Trump either innocent or guilty of insurrection.
