House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has called for the termination of the multiple criminal cases against former President Donald Trump, just hours after Mr. Trump became president-elect.

The Republican candidate’s decisive win in Tuesday election has cast a giant cloud over the legal cases brought against him both for his private conduct as a businessman and candidate in 2016 and his handling of classified documents and his conduct during the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.

“The American people have spoken: the lawfare must end. I call on Attorney General [Merrick] Garland, [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg, and [Fulton County District Attorney] Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump,” the Louisiana Republican wrote on X Wednesday.

Mr. Trump became the first convicted felon to ever win the presidential election early Wednesday morning, after already being the first former president to become a convicted felon.

The power of being president-elect makes it almost certain that the country will never see what could have become of special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election interference case out of Washington, or the related one Mr. Trump faces in Fulton County, Georgia.

Mr. Smith’s push to have the classified documents case in Florida reinstated after the judge tossed it out of court, will also likely be futile, legal experts say.

“I would fire him within two seconds,” Mr. Trump said last month of Mr. Smith. “He’ll be one of the first things addressed.”

Mr. Trump’s delayed sentence scheduling in his criminal New York hush money case — the case that made him a 34-count felon — could perpetually be postponed.

The millions he owes from his multiple civil cases that he is appealing could also be reduced in some fashion, leaving the president-elect getting off practically scot-free.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.