Leftist Elie Mystal: 'Until We Stop the Supreme Court, We Will Keep Losing Rights.'

On Wednesday, leftist activist Elie Mystal appeared on MSNBC, and he made some pretty shocking statements about the Supreme Court; his comments merit some unpacking.

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Mystal, it should be noted, is not only a regular on MSNBC but also writes for "The Nation," a leftist publication whose editorial staff looks down their noses at Vladimir Lenin as a bit of a right-winger. On Wednesday, he said:

"What it say is that they are a corrupted political actors who act in bad faith. The reason why the people like Mark, the people like Dahlia seem to have a crystal ball is because they are real, because they are realists. They understand the court for what it is.
At some point, people in the media, people at home, and people have to stop pretending that the Supreme Court is some benign trying to do it's best institution, and realize that there are six Republicans, not conservatives, Republicans, on the Supreme Court, who view it as their job to help the Republican Party. 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. 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. Until we stop them. Somebody, somebody, needs to start listening in the higher echelons of the Democrat Party. Because we will keep losing everyday if we allow these six Republicans in robes to rule over us."

We're accustomed, of course, to seeing radical leftists complain about the Supreme Court. Calls to stack the court with leftist, activist (but I repeat myself) justices are heard almost daily, and it is leftists that call for this stacking in every case I'm aware of; indeed, the radical left seems to never miss an opportunity to overturn accepted norms and practices, in society and government. It is, in fact, their raison d'etre.

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If it was worthwhile to question Elie Mystal - and it is seldom worth questioning someone who is this badly divorced from reality - it would be interesting to see what "rights" he thinks we have lost due to recent Supreme Court decisions. He is almost certainly talking about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, which decision wasn't really about abortion so much as it was about the Constitution and the proper roles of the states and the federal government. Mystal, I would bet, has never read the Dobbs decision, and likely has very little idea what that decision actually says.

What other decisions could Elie Mystal have in mind? The Bruen decision, which actually preserved our Second Amendment rights, and has been the subject of much complaining from the left ever since?

While these are valid questions (and ones that Mystal won't answer) the major concern I have is with this statement:

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.

What is he proposing here? How can one "take away" the power of the Supreme Court, a power vested in them by the Constitution? Granted the left, of which Elie Mystal is an extreme example, regards the Constitution as, at most, a few broad guidelines, and at worst, some ancient document written by old white men who were probably slave owners. Consider this, though; if Donald Trump, or indeed any Republican, went on any broadcast and advocated for "taking away the power" of the Supreme Court, imagine the outcry from the legacy media and Democrats (but I repeat myself.) But when a radical leftist like Elie Mystal advocates for, essentially, tossing the Constitution in a dumpster?

Crickets.