Despite facing four criminal indictments and a variety of civil lawsuits, former President Donald Trump, according to polls, stands a good chance of returning to the White House in January 2025. And many prominent Republicans are rallying around him. In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on May 20, political science professor Austin Sarat (who teaches at Amherst College in Massachusetts) and former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut argue that “the virus of Trumpism” has had a corrupting effect on the U.S. Supreme Court as well as Congress. “Last Thursday, the New Yor…