Judiciary
No Means No: CBS Pesters Sotomayor for Fears About ICE, U.S.’s Future
On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor made an appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the release of her new children’s book, Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You. The anchors for CBS found it appropriate to repeatedly badger a Supreme Court Justice with off-topic questions concerning Monday’s ruling on illegal-immigration ICE raids in California and…
ABC Fears Defunding Education Dept. Curbs Access to Sotomayor Dissents
After speaking with zero conservative voices about politics last season, ABC’s The View sent a message that they were planning to continue that model on Tuesday’s episode. Their first guest of Season 29 was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was treated to a softball interview filled with gush about her opinions and dissent. At one point, co-host Joy Behar expressed a…
CNN Trashes Barrett's New Memoir For Defending Overturning Roe
As Justice Amy Coney Barrett releases her new memoir, CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic couldn’t help but trash the part of the book where Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade. On Tuesday’s The Situation Room, Biskupic claimed that Barrett’s argument that Roe undermined the democratic process was bad because the Constitution is to be interpreted to protect…
Carville Demands Dems Add States, SCOTUS Seats 'To Save Democracy'
Former Clinton strategist James Carville does a podcast with former Clinton cheerleading journalist Al Hunt, and on their Wednesday recording of Politicon's Politics War Room, they reacted to the redistricting battle currently going on in Texas. While Hunt claimed Republicans are “fighting dirty,” Carville gave the game away and claimed that in order “to save democracy,” Democrats…
PBS's Frontline: Trump 'A Travesty in All of American History'
Even as the Senate was preparing to take up defunding PBS, the taxpayer-funded network was shamelessly airing another Trump-trashing Frontline documentary on Tuesday evening. The online blurb to “Trump’s Power and the Rule of Law” explained they would spend 90 minutes warning about the "high-stakes showdown" between Trump and judges trying to curb his executive powers.
PBS's NYT Guest Gushes Over Justice Barrett, 'Beacon of Hope' for Libs
The Independence Day edition of the PBS News Hour, guest-anchored by John Yang, featured two liberal Supreme Court experts sympathetically discussing Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee whose votes have trended leftward of late, pleasing liberals and disappointing conservatives. The panelists discussed conservative death threats against Barrett without mentioning the left-…
Jennings Triggers Panelists After Claiming Trump Had Best Week Of Term
CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip may have decided to try something new on Friday by taking her roundtable of panelists to the set of the Food Network, but one thing that remained the same was MRC Bulldog Award winner Scott Jennings triggering his liberal colleagues. This time, Jennings argued Trump had the “best week or two weeks” of his term, punctuated by the Supreme Court’s ruling…
CBS Mornings Revives Gay Rights Fear Mongering – After Saying Opposite
During Friday’s CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz invited Kevin Jennings, CEO of the activist group Lambda Legal, to stoke fears that Obergefell v. Hodges might be in jeopardy. The segment unfolded as a slow‑burn panic session as the trio lamented over how anti-LGBTQ sentiment has supposedly grown since the Obergefell ruling was delivered by the…
ABC Delivers Copious Fear-Mongering After SCOTUS Ruling on Judiciary
CBS and NBC showed welcome restraint their Special Reports Friday morning about the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. CASA concerning universal, nationwide injunctions by individual district court judges, refusing to take the leftist talking points about it being DEFCON-1 for illegal immigrants and birthright citizenship. In contrast, ABC pointed out the ruling had nothing to do with…
MSNBC Panics Over SCOTUS Limiting National Injunctions By Lower Courts
Following the U.S. Supreme Court issuing its final set of rulings for the session on Friday, MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera took to her eponymous show to lead her left-wing legal panelists as they collectively panicked about the court limiting the ability for lower, regional courts from issuing nation-wide injunctions. Cabrera herself proclaimed: “This sounds like a giant win for the Trump administration…
WashPost Puffs 1st Trans Lawyer at SCOTUS; NY Times Later Adds Reality
The headline deck to the June 16 piece by Jesús Rodríguez for the Washington Post, a profile of the first transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, heralded the gush to come: “Chase Strangio is trying to help trans people exist in Trump’s America”!
Legacy News Suddenly Uninterested in Judges Blocking Trump Deportation
Since when don’t judges blocking deportations go immediately to the top of A-block on legacy network newscasts? It turns out that there is not as much interest in covering a blocked deportation when it isn’t immediately useful as Resistance Porn. Case in point: the planned deportations of the family of the accused Boulder fire bombing jihadist.
Daily Show Spreads Fake News About SCOTUS, Labels It 'Snowflakes'
Leah Litman is a law professor, podcaster, author, and on Wednesday, a fake news-peddling guest on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. During her appearance with Michael Kosta, Litman came across as a profoundly unserious person who took quotes from conservative Supreme Court justices wildly out of context and was more interested in name-calling.
Senator Kennedy Schools ABC Legal Analyst on SCOTUS Rhetoric
On Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) schooled ABC News legal analyst Kate Shaw during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that included a brief spotlight on Shaw's previous remarks about Supreme Court Justices – calling some of the colleagues of Justice Elena Kagan “evil”. Shaw, also a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and wife of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, was invited by Senate…
