Does Trump really think he can get away with this? Historically, the answer would be no – dramatized most famously by the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1974 ruling to force Richard Nixon to surrender White House tapes. But that was a very different time ... and a very different Supreme Court. Unlike the Nixon case, time is on Trump’s side – the legal fights will drag on for months and go into the heart of the 2020 campaign season, and maybe beyond it, which is the whole point. What’s more, the GOP-led Senate has aided Trump, intentionally or not, by giving him two Supreme Court justices and more than 100 new right-wing judicial appointments.