In a Miami courtroom, a federal judge has paused the machinery of litigation to ask a question that may render all other questions moot: can a former president's claim of immunity shield even his post-presidential projects from legal challenge? By halting pretrial proceedings in a lawsuit targeting Trump's planned Miami library, the judge has signaled that the threshold of immunity may be high enough to close the courthouse door entirely, before a single fact is weighed at trial. The moment reflects a broader reckoning in American law — one in which the boundaries of presidential protection co