Former President Donald J. Trump just can’t shake Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg off him. While Trump is on the verge of successfully delaying his federal criminal prosecutions until well into the red zone of the 2024 election, or even after the election, the New York state election interference trial is now scheduled to start on March 25. The case is a strong one and will have excellent jury appeal—especially to a jury drawn from a savvy and mostly liberal Manhattan jury pool. Here’s why so much of the criticism about Bragg’s prosecution lacks merit.

The Manhattan District Attorney has brought 34 felony counts against Trump for falsifying business records to cover up the fact he made “hush money” payments to actress Stormy Daniels to try to stop her from going public with their affair—this on the heels of Trump’s well-publicized comments to Access Hollywood where he bragged about grabbing women by their genitals and how he sought to come onto a married woman.

The charges of falsifying business record are felonies, rather than misdemeanors, because they are alleged to have been done to cover up another crime—namely, election interference. The prosecution theory is that Trump was desperate to keep Daniels quiet because her revealing the affair—in conjunction with the Access Hollywood tape—would hurt Trump’s chances in the 2016 presidential election.

Misplaced criticism of Bragg’s case coalesces around two areas of supposed weakness: legal arguments that the case should........

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