Donald Trump has been reelected to the White House while awaiting sentencing in his hush-money case in New York where he was convicted on 34 counts and still working to stave off prosecution in other state and federal cases. It’s an extraordinarily unique position for him to be in: Never before has a criminal defendant been elected to the nation’s highest office, just as an ex-president had never been criminally charged until last year.Trump has said multiple times he plans to fire special counsel Jack Smith and end the federal cases against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documents.”It clearly paid off to aggressively push to delay these cases as long as possible,” said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School.In the meantime, a judge in New York is set to sentence the former president later this month after holding off …