‘The Fix Is In!’ MSNBC Host Lashes Out at Trump-Dominated Supreme Court Over Trial Delay In Blistering Rant
MSNBC host Chris Hayes lashed out at the “MAGA Majority” on the Supreme Court for a decision that will delay former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 trial — perhaps fatally to the case.
Seven weeks after a stunning appeals court hearing at which Trump’s attorney argued that a president could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first, the Supreme Court has announced it will take up that issue on appeal — and hear arguments on April 22.
That decision has angered many, including Hayes. He expressed his outrage with a blistering 8-minute commentary on Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, torching the “MAGA majority” for acting “in cahoots” with Trump and translating the “crystal clear” message of the order — “the fix is in”:
Today, the right wing dominated Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a gift, the biggest possible gift anyone could give him, the biggest possible gift they have given him yet.
Remember, Donald Trump, of course, participated in a violent coup to overthrow a democracy. The first president to set himself squarely against the constitutional order in history. He rallied his supporters to storm the Capitol and steal an election.
He lost, and he was indicted by our Justice Department representative of us, the people, on four federal felony counts by a grand jury for his role in that insurrection.
Well today, in a single-page order released at 5:00, the court agreed to consider Trump’s manifestly weak claim that he is immune from prosecution for the January 6th insurrection because he was acting, in some senses, of his, in his official capacity as president.
But the order itself is not the story here. It’s the timing. It all comes back to the timing. Let’s remember the court case. The trial of Donald Trump over his effort to subvert the Constitutional Republic was originally set to begin days from now in March.
All of that is on hold because the Supreme Court wants to hear oral arguments for Trump’s immunity claims — ready for this — seven weeks from now. April 22nd, 2024, making it a real possibility. A likelihood, in fact, that Donald Trump will not face a trial for the crime of attempting to overthrow the American republic, will not face a jury of his peers until after the next election, in which he is the likely Republican candidate.
I want to be crystal clear here about the important significance of today’s news, because I think a lot of reporting has missed this. What happened today. This one-page order looks anodyne, right? It is an unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority of the Trump-created court that they are with him. That they are going to use their power to make sure he does not face trial in an election year for attempting to end American democracy.
Until today, it could have gone either way. It was genuinely unclear whether they were going to give him what he wanted, whether they were going to put their shoulder to the wheel on Donald Trump’s behalf. Everyone has always understood the substance of his legal claim here is meritless. It lost to the district court level. It lost unanimously in the appellate court, three judges, one of whom was a Republican appointee. It is bad law under the Supreme Court’s own precedent in jurisprudence.
The point was never to win on the merits. The point was to make a time-consuming Hail Mary pass to attempt to escape accountability. Trump’s bet was that the 6-3 MAGA majority he himself created on that court would bail him out.
That they would rob the People’s Department of Justice the opportunity to present all the evidence of his guilt that the voters of this country, you and I, the hundreds of millions of us, might be robbed of the information we need to determine whether the man is guilty of the gravest crime any politician has been accused of since the Civil War.
Today, the court signaled they are in cahoots, that the plot is on, it’s a go. Yes, they will take up the case. When they get to it.
Watch above via MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes.
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