Last year, former President Donald Trump's mountain of legal issues posed a clear and present danger to his ability to campaign for the 2024 election. 

Many legal observers from both sides were near certain that Trump's campaigning ability would be severely hamstrung by all of the cases brought against him.

However, as his first-class legal defense team worked overtime to score victory after victory, according to Fox News, most of Trump's legal issues will not have to be dealt with until after the November election, freeing him up to continue blazing a path forward to a second term in the White House.

The most recent legal victory, and perhaps the most profound, was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on his immunity defense.

What's going on?

Many of his cases were tied up in motions and hearings regarding Trump's presidential immunity claim, and when the high court ruled in his favor on the immunity question, it all but killed or significantly altered some of the cases he faced.

Fox News noted:

The question of presidential immunity stemmed from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Trump. Trump pleaded not guilty to those charges. That trial was put on hold in a lower court pending the Supreme Court’s ruling, which wiped out any charges related to official presidential acts.

The majority opinion in the immunity decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, explained that Trump has "substantial" immunity for acts while he was in office, but left it to the lower courts to decide if immunity applied outside of official acts.

"The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts," Chief Justice Roberts wrote at the time.

He added, "That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party."

Trump's legal strategy focused mainly around delaying as many trials as possible until after the November election, and that's exactly what he and his legal team have been able to do so far.

Case dismissed

One of the most consequential trials Trump faced was his classified documents case brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Ultimately, that case was thrown out by the judge, who ruled that Smith's appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional.

The Georgia election interference case, marred with unexpected controversy surrounding DA Fani Willis, has been indefinitely delayed while a mountain of issues are sorted out and appealed.

While Smith has signaled that he's still pursuing the federal election interference case against Trump, a trial for that is likely a long way down the road, even into next year.

Should Trump win in November, many believe he will simply appoint an attorney general who will quash the cases altogether. Only time will tell.