MSNBC Guest Elie Mystal Melts Down Over SCOTUS Decision: ‘They Will Help Trump!’

A guest contributor on MSNBC fell on the verge of a full-blown public panic attack when asked to comment on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up former President Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from criminal prosecution.

Elie Mystal, an attorney and contributor and the left-leaning outlet The Nation, bordered on apoplectic as he spun a conspiracy about how sitting “Republicans” on the nation’s highest courts “do the bidding” of their alleged party, a situation decades in the making and unlikely to change until Democrats get their act together.

“At some point, people in the media, people at home, and people sitting in the White House have to stop pretending that the Supreme Court is some kind of benign, trying-to-do-its-best institution and start to realize that there are six Republicans – not conservatives, Republicans – on the Supreme Court who view it as their job to help the Republican Party,” Mystal ranted.

“Until we do something about that, until we take away that power, until we draw the line on them there, they will continue to do this.”

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But Mystal wasn’t done. He warned Democrats that their party leadership better start formulating a plan to restore balance to the Supreme Court or run the risk of actually seeking the court negate all of Trump’s criminal trials.

“They will help Trump. They will take away abortion rights. They will end affirmative action. They will liberalize gun rights. They will do all of it… and somebody needs to start listening in the higher echelons of the Democratic Party.”

President Trump and his attorneys are counting on the Supreme Court to take its time in evaluating his claims that the Constitution does not allow for the prosecution of a former president based on actions taken while in office. Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has called that argument “meritless” and forged ahead with two federal cases against Trump despite stays ordered by both judges.

The case before the court comes in response to a lower court’s ruling that rejected the immunity argument, referring to the former president as “citizen Trump” who is no more immune from prosecution than any other American. Still, even if the Supreme Court were to rule against him, Trump can rely on a series of legal delay tactics to set his cases back by months and push the trials into a blackout period typically honored by the Justice Department 60 days in advance of an election. If he were to defeat President Joe Biden, Trump would in all likelihood seek to dismiss both federal cases against him.