MSNBC Rips SCOTUS on Affirmative Action Ruling, Denies Thomas Is Black

Jonathan Capehart, the fill-in host for Thursday evening’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, reacted to the morning’s news of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case by launching personal attacks on the justices who had voted against it. He especially condemned their race and political ideologies as reasons that they had voted the way that they did.

Ana Schau
June 30th, 2023 11:08 PM

ABC, CBS Broadcast Their Own Dissenting Opinions on Affirmative Action

CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) offered dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action ruling Friday morning under the guise of objective journalism. CBS’s Tony Dokoupil strategized about avoiding the Court’s ruling by including race in essays, and Prairie View A&M University president Ruth Simmons likened the ruling to Plessy vs.…

Cassandra DeVries
June 30th, 2023 10:16 PM

HEARTBREAK CITY: Here’s How ABC/CBS/NBC Handled Friday’s SCOTUS Cases

Just as they did on Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each broke in Friday morning for the final Supreme Court cases of the session, which were President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (Biden v. Nebraska) and a free speech case involving Christian web designer and LGBTQ individuals (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis). 

Curtis Houck
June 30th, 2023 7:16 PM

NB Podcast: Media Predict Jim Crow 4.0 Following Major SCOTUS Rulings

Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Your managing editor Curtis Houck and I discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at the prospect of fair admissions processes, free speech for the religious, and President Biden getting his underhanded campaign ploy trounced…

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 30th, 2023 6:03 PM

Joyce Vance Doesn’t Think Students Can Write an Essay on Adversity

Friday’s Morning Joe took to bemoaning the US Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance provided a bizarre criticism of the decision: seemingly arguing that minority students were literally incapable of writing essays about facing racial diversity.

Vance repeated the traditional…

Peter Kotara
June 30th, 2023 5:13 PM

World Economic Forum Praises Dictators and Touts Dangerous AI

The World Economic Forum’s summer conference closed, but its dystopian artificial intelligence (AI) plans for the future continue. And those AI plans ignore the inherent risks and threats of the technology.

Catherine Salgado
June 30th, 2023 5:10 PM

Biden Blocks Beltway, Leaving Liberals Livid - Massive CO2 Emitted by Idling Vehicles

President Joe Biden caused a massive traffic backup on the Capital Beltway, leaving hundreds of stagnant drivers, even some of his supporters, fuming for over an hour Tuesday.
Evan Poellinger
June 30th, 2023 2:22 PM

Conservative SCHOOLS Hyperbolic MSNBC Predicting Return of Segregation

Much like they did the previous day when affirmative action was ruled unconstitutional, Ana Cabrera Reports delved into the conspiratorial and hyperbolic nature that was MSNBC and claimed a 6-3 ruling of the Supreme Court would lead to the return of segregated American society. Luckily, this time, there was a conservative around to inject some sense into the conversation: Carrie…

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 30th, 2023 1:55 PM

CNN: 'The Wheels Are Coming Off' For Borrowers After Student Loan Case

Not long after their distributing their hot takes about how the preservation of religious liberty threatens to bring back Jim Crow, the Friday cast of CNN News Central freaked that “the wheels are coming off” for people who will now have to repay their loans after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan cancellation scheme in Biden v. Nebraska.

Alex Christy
June 30th, 2023 1:40 PM

Legal Expert Touts 6-3 SCOTUS Decision as 'Victory' for Free Speech

George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley hailed a “victory” for free speech after the U.S. Supreme Court protected the First Amendment rights of a web designer targeted by the rainbow mafia. 

Tom Olohan and Joseph Vazquez
June 30th, 2023 12:02 PM

REVEALED: TikTok Trying to Silence Media Critics

A newly released memo has revealed the communist Chinese government-tied TikTok’s coping strategy to censor its critics.

Nicholas Schau
June 30th, 2023 12:01 PM

CNN Fears Return of Jim Crow as Court Rules in Favor of Free Speech

CNN News Central reacted to the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that upheld the First Amendment right to not be compelled to create a website for a same-sex wedding by raising hysterical hypotheticals about the return of Jim Crow. The assembled cast was also greatly confused by the difference between a gay individual and their wedding.

Alex Christy
June 30th, 2023 12:00 PM

Supreme Court Rules Biden Doesn’t Have Authority to Impose His $400 Billion Student Loan Forgiveness Program on Taxpayers

The Supreme Court ruled that the Biden Administration cannot use the COVID-relief HEROES Act to implement its $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.
Craig Bannister
June 30th, 2023 11:46 AM

SCOTUS Protects Website Designer’s 1st Amendment Rights, Rules She Can’t Be Forced to ‘Defy Her Conscience’

In a landmark First Amendment decision, the Supreme Court affirmed that a website designer cannot be compelled by government to create a website that is an affront to her values.
Craig Bannister
June 30th, 2023 10:22 AM