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USA Today: 'Hundreds of Thousands' Could Be Disenfranchised By Supremes Allowing Wisconsin ID Law to Stand

By Tom Blumer | March 23, 2015, 4:01 PM EDT

claims at face value even when they can't possibly make any sense, Richard Wolf at USA Today relayed ... acceptable at the polls. USA Today's Richard Wolf had no business treating voter-ID opponents' ... credible. Wolf also wrote that the Badger State's law was written to prevent what he called ...

Holder Gets Mostly Gushing Sendoff at USA Today

By Tom Blumer | September 26, 2014, 1:41 PM EDT

a double standard here." USA Today's puff piece on Holder, by Kevin Johnson and Richard Wolf ... Party Online Media Blogs Major Newspapers USA Today Richard Wolf Eric Holder ...

USAT's Wolf Shows Financial Ignorance, Relays Non-Scientific Arguments for Hobby Lobby Decision's Opponents

By Tom Blumer | June 30, 2014, 2:20 PM EDT

USA Today reporter Richard Wolf's afternoon coverage of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ... per year, or $26 million. Wolf almost seems to be saying that $475 million spread over 13,000 workers ... of business knowledge would know, and Wolf should have noted, that a nondeductible penalty of this ...

USA Today Initially Fails to Identify 6-2 Majority in Supremes' Mich. Racial Preferences Decision

By Tom Blumer | April 22, 2014, 8:56 PM EDT

admissions, USA Today's Richard Wolf failed to identify the size of the court majority, which was 6-2. ... Additionally, by focusing on Justice Anthony Kennedy as "the man to watch," Wolf initially left many ... from dozens of individuals and started a legal campaign to get the referendum pulled. Richard Wolf ...

USA Today Reporters Distort, Lament SCOTUS Ruling in Campaign Finance Case

By Ken Shepherd | April 2, 2014, 3:02 PM EDT

USA Today's Richard Wolf and Fredreka Schouten wasted no time this morning distorting the ... Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Wolf and Schouten, however, practically endorsed the lament of ... numerous failed candidates and big-money donors can attest. Additionally, as Wolf and Schouten noted deep ...

Supreme Court 'Tilts Further to the Right'...After Tacking Firmly to the Left For Obama?

By Tim Graham | October 5, 2013, 6:59 AM EDT

Richard Wolf of USA Today can’t use the word “left” to describe recent Supreme Court rulings, only ... tacks left, it’s a “blockbuster” term of “landmark" decisions. Wolf began: “After two blockbuster ... Wolf suggests – contrary to recent evidence – that this is going to be an “Alito Court” where liberals ...

USA Today on Obama's Book List: 'Smart' Choices Display His 'Exquisite Taste'

By Brent Baker | August 25, 2009, 5:06 PM EDT

USA Today reporter Richard Wolf's Tuesday news story on President Barack Obama's ... here,” Wolf wrote from Martha's Vineyard island. “'I would not classify any of those as light ... a montage of the covers of the five books, Wolf also relayed more effusive praise: “Presidential historian ...

USA Today Pits Two Liberals to One Conservative in Budget Story

By Ken Shepherd | February 4, 2008, 2:58 PM EST

In the February 4 USA Today, Richard Wolf treated news of Bush's last budget proposal by alternating between liberal Democrats attacking the president and Wolf's own stark language in characterizing the spending blueprint. What's more, Wolf cited two Democrats attacking the spending plan, ...