The new ruling by Judge Juan Merchan, who denied Trump’s claim of presidential immunity, was specific. Lawfare’s legal fellow and courts correspondent Anna Bower pointed to part of the ruling in which Merchan explains that Trump had ample opportunity to bring up the idea of presidential immunity as a defense earlier and chose not to. In fact, Trump could have brought up the matter when his lawyers briefed the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals about the presidential immunity claim in the case around the federal election. What was interesting to Bower is that when referencing the case in D.C., t…