'130 days!?' Angry legal expert flags hypocrisy of Supreme Court's Trump immunity delay
"The Nation" justice correspondent Elie Mystal is beside himself with fury at the Supreme Court's delayed decision to review former President Donald Trump's claim to absolute immunity, jeopardizing the timeline for being able to hold a trial on Trump's federal election charges before the 2024 election.
On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," he raked the justices over the coals for suddenly deciding to hear the case now that it throws off the timeline, when they refused in December to hear the case at a time when everything could have been wrapped up far more easily.
"Remember how, let's say all of 2022, I came on your program and I screamed and I tore my hair out how Merrick Garland was moving too slowly to hold Trump accountable before the next election?" said Mystal. "This is why. Because you have to understand what the Supreme Court is really about."
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"I know you like to give your viewers context, so add this on for some context about what the Supreme Court is really up to," Mystal continued. "Trump was kicked off of the Colorado ballot, right? And around December 20th last year, the Supreme Court spooled up that case and heard that hearing within 45 days on February 8th, all right? Trump was, appealed his immunity — Judge Chutkan's immunity ruling also the middle of December. Andrew Weissman just pointed out Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on December 14th. By the time we get to April 22nd, it would be 130 days since they were asked to hear the appeal. So it's 45 days when a ruling could hurt Trump, but 130 days when a ruling — when the delay can help Trump."
"That is the essence of this Supreme Court," Mystal added. "And every single Democrat who is not onboard for expanding the Supreme Court and reducing the power of these Republican theocrats in robes is in some way complicit in today's failure."
Mystal accompanied his onscreen rant with an offscreen rant posted to X, filled with far more explicit language, that he acknowledged raised eyebrows with his wife.
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