Supreme Court Never Imagined a Litigant Like President Trump

By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View

Only two presidents have had to deal with private lawsuits while in office. One was John Kennedy, who settled a suit involving a car crash that happened during his campaign. The other was Bill Clinton, sued by Paula Jones for making sexual advances toward her when he was governor of Arkansas. President-elect Donald Trump is involved in 75 pending lawsuits . That’s a problem — potentially a serious one .

Under the 1997 U.S. Supreme Court precedent that let Jones’s lawsuit go forward, these cases will proceed as normal unless Trump settles the ones where ...