Why the Trumpy Supreme Court Will Give Him the Finger
“Ever since RBG died, I’ve basically spent the last six weeks in existential terror,” Elie Mystal, The Nation’s justice correspondent, tells Molly Jong-Fast.
Trump appoints Amy Coney Barrett, so she could hand the election back to president Trump. But now, Mystal says on the latest edition of The New Abnormal, “I am no longer worried about these dumb lawsuits…”
“Where we are now is the best possible position for Biden to be in order to fend off legal challenges to his emerging electoral college victory,” he says. “I have extreme confidence that none of these wackadoodle, crazy lawsuits that Trump and Trump’s campaign throws out there will have any relevance—even in front of Republican appointed judges and arch conservative of Supreme court.”