A big question is whether a court case would be over before the 2020 presidential election, when voters will be deciding whether to give Trump a second term. A lawsuit would likely be filed in federal district court in D.C., and some legal experts argue that at a minimum a district court judge could make a ruling on a case before the election because many of the facts are fairly straightforward. “My reading of it is [a court case] could be very fast,” said University of Virginia law professor George Yin.