If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.

OR, since we've once again given special legal protections to the rich and powerful, no matter how repugnant, providing another example of how our justice system works so very differently when you aren't one of the little guys, Trump gets elected, then there's the whole "ZOMG but now he's president-elect" pearl clutching and hand wringing that causes further delays, then he's inaugurated, and then I eventually get to die of old age with a dictator in charge while watching my country slowly morph into something like a mix of Gilead and the German-occupied former-US from Man in the High Castle.