A lot of the night’s prime-time cable information content material was centered across the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to listen to the Trump attraction on presidential immunity, after the D.C. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals mentioned he had none. The tone has usually been one among tooth-gnashing and wailing over the timing of the listening to date, April twenty second. Among the many left wing commentariat, author and MSNBC visitor Elie Mystal vomited up the wildest take of the night.
Watch Mystal affirm, with out proof, that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are going to rule for Trump as a result of they need to retire throughout a Republican presidency, as aired on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight on Wednesday, February twenty eighth, 2024:
ALEX WAGNER: Nicely, Elie, within the break main into the phase, you rightly level out the vested curiosity that a few of these conservatives have in a reelection of Trump because it pertains to their retirement.
ELIE MYSTAL: Clarence Thomas would not need to die on that court docket and he’s getting outdated and he’s by no means going to retire throughout a Democratic president. So Clarence Thomas- one of many the explanation why he’s not re-cruising himself is that Clarence Thomas wants Trump to win once more so Clarence Thomas can retire. And probably, Sam Alito wants Trump to win once more so Alito can retire as an alternative of getting to die on the bench. And in order that’s at the least two of the 9 who’ve a vested skilled curiosity in seeing continued Republican hegemony over this nation and that’s not the primary time this has occurred. As everyone knows, Sandra Day O’Connor needed George Bush to be president and thus appointed him president in Bush v. Gore, as a result of she needed to retire below a Republican president. That is how Republicans roll. Â
Maybe there’s the likelihood that, on a matter as novel and important as presidential immunity, that the Supreme Courtroom needed to let the document develop organically, permitting the decrease court docket and appellate court docket to rule on the matter. And that, moreover, the Courtroom needed to permit this to run on common time in order to not rush such an essential opinion and get it proper. Therefore, the court docket set the immunity listening to on the present October docket, versus January when it was first requested by Particular Counsel Jack Smith. Simply perhaps.
However such temperate analyses don’t minimize it for MSNBC. Which is the way you get Elie Mystal wailing about Republican Courtroom-imposed hegemony, and suggesting that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor appointed George W. Bush to the presidency so she may experience off into the sundown.Â
Wagner was additionally joined in the course of the phase by Slate senior author Mark Joseph Stern, who echoed these identical sentiments.
What the phase proved is that the left doesn’t actually care about such trivial issues as due course of or every other such dicta. The one factor that issues is that Donald J. Trump be discovered responsible and convicted of a critical federal crime earlier than Election Day, 2024. April twenty second throws all that into jeopardy. Therefore all of the whining and emoting.
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