MSNBC Legal Analyst Lays Out Wild Conspiracy Theory About Trump, the Supreme Court, and ‘Republican Hegemony Over This Country’

Progressive legal commentator Elie Mystal described a sweeping, decades-long effort of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices to help elect Republican presidents so they could retire into the sunset on MSNBC Wednesday night.

Mystal spun the tale after being prompted by Alex Wagner, who praised him for “rightly” arguing that the justices have “vested interests” in the reelection of Donald Trump.

“Clarence Thomas doesn’t want to die on that court, and he’s getting old, and he’s never going to retire during a Democratic president. So Clarence Thomas, one of the reasons why he’s not recusing himself, is that Clarence Thomas needs Trump to win again so Clarence Thomas can retire,” began Mystal. “And most likely, Sam Alito needs Trump to win again so Alito can retire instead of having to die on the bench. And so that’s at least two of the nine who have a vested professional interest in seeing continued Republican hegemony over this country.”

He went on to assert, without presenting a single shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory, that is “not the first time this has happened.”

“As we all know, Sandra Day O’Connor wanted George Bush to be president and thus appointed him president in Bush v. Gore because she wanted to retire under a Republican president,” declared Mystal. “This is how Republicans roll.”

The impressed Wagner nodded along, thanking Mystal for his “passions” amidst “these doldrums and dark moments.”

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case during this term that will decide whether Trump has a claim to immunity from federal prosecution for actions he took while in the White House this spring. There is no indication of how it will decide the case — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Trump did not have such a claim — but many Democratic operatives have expressed fury that the federal trial for crimes Trump allegedly committed in the wake of the 2020 election will not be completed before the 2024 election.

Watch above via MSNBC.