The jury in the Trump trial faces a task unique in American history

It was a tawdry tale of lies, revenge and hush money, with a sordid alleged bedroom scene, a judge whose patience finally cracked and a raging defendant who is a once and possibly future president. But there’ll be no more evidence, witnesses, or brutal cross-examinations in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial, which has moved into the final phase before jurors retire to deliberate their verdict in a historic case entangled with the 2024 election. Unusually, there will now be a break of a week — because of the Memorial Day holiday — between Tuesday’s final testimony and when lawyers for each side lay out their final narratives in closing summations. Then the judge will deliver his...