Elie Mystal Asks MSNBC Host To ‘Imagine Trump Wants To Murder You’ In Bonkers SCOTUS Hypothetical

Elie Mystal threw out a bonkers hypothetical where President Donald Trump starts ordering the killing of journalists to emphasize that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on injunctions is a “five-alarm catastrophe.”

Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation, joined MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Tuesday after penning an oped calling the Supreme Court ruling a “five-alarm catastrophe.”

In a 6-3 decision this week, the Supreme Court gutted universal injunctions blocking, among other things, the president’s birthright citizenship executive order.

The president called the ruling a “monumental victory” in his response, and although the court did not weigh in on birthright citizenship itself, he argued the practice is being used “scam the system” in his victory lap commentary.

Mystal suggested the rolling back of injunction authority could lead to a very grim scenario, asking Velshi to imagine a scenario where Trump wants him “murdered.”

Mystal argued:

Imagine Donald Trump wants to do something illegal to you, Ali Velshi. Imagine that he wants to murder you. Imagine that he and Stephen Miller released an entire policy explaining about how they can murder Canadian journalists who are working in America because they’re taking the jobs from real American journalists. Right. So he’s going to murder you. So you. Ali Velshi, you go to court. You go to court in the Southern District of New York. And you say, like, I don’t, I don’t I don’t think this murder thing is constitutional. It’s clearly illegal. It’s clearly constitutional. Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller shouldn’t be able to have a plan to murder me. And the court says, you’re right, Ali Velshi. There’s no way Donald Trump is allowed to murder you. We’re going to have an injunction. We’re going to stay the executive order saying that he’s going to murder Canadian journalists who are working in America because they’re taking the jobs from real American journalists.

Mystal claimed the Supreme Court’s ruling would make it far harder for Velshi to fight this hypothetical, government-sanctioned murder.

He said:

So you, Alli Velsi, you go to court, you got a court in the Southern District of New York. Can you say, like, I don’t think this murder thing is constitutional. It’s clearly illegal, it’s clearly constitutional, Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller shouldn’t be able to have a plan to murder me. And the court says, you’re right, Ali Velshi, there’s no way Donald Trump is allowed to murder you. We’re going to have an injunction, we’re going stay the executive order saying that he’s going to murder Canadian journalists. And so you’re like, great, awesome, and you go home. And then Pat Kiernan shows up and he’s like, what about me? I’m also a Canadian too. Ashleigh Banfield shows up, she’s like, I’m a Canadian, what about me? And the court’s like I can’t help you, because Ali Velshi is the one who sued.

Watch above via MSNBC.