U.S. Supreme Court
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…
CBS Admits Trump’s Argument Against National Injunctions Has Merit
CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford delivered another stand out segment during Thursday’s edition of CBS Mornings. While highlighting how the U.S. Supreme Court was set to hear rare May oral arguments, in a case that challenged the circuit courts’ ability to issue national injunctions outside their districts, Crawford seemed to suggest that the argument did have merit…
PBS On Souter: 'We Need That Model' To Stand Up To Trump
Not even the death of a former Supreme Court justice can stop PBS News Hour from freaking out about President Donald Trump setting up some sort of dictatorship. On Friday, former Trump impeachment witness and David Souter law clerk Noah Feldman joined the show to remember his former boss and while he never explicitly mentioned Trump, it was clear who he was referring to when he…
Brad Todd 'Fact Checks' the Liberal Ranters Over Trump's NBC Interview
Ever since Audie Cornish took over as host of CNN This Morning, we've been on a kvetch campaign about her failure to include Trump supporters on her reliably left-leaning panels. So it was surprising to see a welcome halt to this with the return of Republican strategist Brad Todd.
EXCLUSIVE: US Gov’t Committed Over $11M to Soros’s Open Society Groups
It appears that leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations was outright lying when it claimed it received no funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Blitzer Tries Pushing Breyer To Worry About 'Constitutional Crisis'
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer tried repeatedly to goad former liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer into attacking both his former colleagues and President Donald Trump on Wednesday’s edition of The Situation Room.
Cornish On Deportations: Don't Wanna Say 'Constitutional Crisis', But!
On CNN This Morning, in a discussion of the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan gang members despite a judge's order purporting to prohibit it, host Audie Cornish engages in apophasis, saying: "This is one of those things that people end up talking about constitutional crisis. I will try not to kickoff Monday with that term, but . . . "
Colbert, Buttigieg Fear For 'Soul of our Nation' After Trump Speech
CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…
60 Minutes Gushes Over John Oliver's 'Takedown' Of Clarence Thomas
Sunday was a big night for HBO’s John Oliver. In addition to his regular show, the Last Week Tonight host was also the subject of a gushing profile from CBS’s Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes. Whitaker fawned over Oliver’s “unique take on politics,” the “twinkle in his eye,” his “mischievous smile,” and “takedown” of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, where Oliver tried to…
Joe Scarborough's Group Therapy Session For Panic-Stricken Liberals
Joe Scarborough feels the pain of panic-stricken liberals in the age of Trump 2.0., and is doing his best to talk them in off the ledge, and to stay engaged, and trust that the system of checks and balances will "prove up to the task."
MSNBC Rants 'Arc of Justice Has Been Crushed' Before Trump Sentencing
MSNBC weekend host and legal contributor Katie Phang joined colleague Joy Reid on Friday’s installment of The ReidOut to declare that "the arc of justice has been crushed" now that Donald Trump will not be getting the hefty sentence on January 10 that progressives like them were hoping for in the New York hush money case.
CNN Sums Up 2024 by TRASHING Supreme Court 'Dominated' by the Right
On Saturday night, CNN ran a year-in-review special All The Best, All the Worst 2024, and naturally, since it’s CNN the conservative-leaning Supreme Court got a Worst. Anchor Tom Foreman proclaimed the high court "dominated by conservatives" had the “worst public image plunge.” The plunge is among Democrats.
PBS Attacks SCOTUS for Not Deferring to the Left's Gender 'Experts'
New York Times columnist Masha Gessen joined NPR host Michel Martin on Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS, where he attacked the Supreme Court for not listening to the left’s preferred “experts” on the case involving Tennessee’s ban on so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
