MSNBC’s Joy Reid and The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal did not take the news that Colorado had a rough day before the Supreme Court as it tried to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot well on the former’s Friday show. Instead of actually trying to understand conservative legal philosophy, all they could do was play the race and sexism cards.
Joy Reid found it “ironic” that conservative justices in particular are all about states’ rights on things such as abortion and redistricting but are not enthusiastic about a state declaring Trump to be an insurrectionist and asked Mystal, “Do you find that stuff ironic too, Elie?”
Of course, insurrection against the United States is, by definition, a federal crime and the Constitution explicitly lays out the requirements for presidential eligibility. It…
