Judiciary

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday to push back against the “silly” criticisms of his plans to reform his country’s Supreme Court by calmly giving host George Stephanopoulos a basic civics lesson in separation of powers. Not a fan of the “silly” description, Stephanopoulos responded by wondering why Netanyahu doesn’t just listen to…

Friday's Washington Post included no story on the House Weaponization Subcommittee's hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Breitbart's Emma-Jo Morris on Big Tech censorship. But the front page had an obligatory front-page story on a grand jury investigating Donald Trump and this amazing scandal piece: "Activist Leo aided drive to lionize Thomas." That's Leonard Leo, head of the…

House Ranking member Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) kicked off Thursday’s hearings by railing against her committee for giving Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a platform to share his experiences with Big Tech censorship.

CNN This Morning host Phil Mattingly had Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Tuesday morning’s program to discuss several different issues, notably the recent anti-Semitic statements from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Together they lamented Republicans calling out Democrats and tried to tie the anti-Semitic comments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to House Republicans despite…

U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of Louisiana is the gift that keeps on giving. Doughty rejected the Biden administration’s request to stay an order banning the federal government from colluding with Big Tech platforms to censor free speech online.

After a judge issued an injunction restricting the government’s censorship activities, the Biden administration rushed to protest the pro free-speech decision.

It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is an important advancement toward equality for all. Reaction to the 6-3 decision has been mostly predictable. Many on the left,…

The New York Times sparked fireworks on Twitter Tuesday, and not in a good way. The Times is getting all the heat — and rightfully so — after whining that the so-called fight to combat misinformation could be curtailed following a judge order blocking…

The Supreme Court ended its term with several major decisions favorable to conservatives, and tax-funded public broadcasting, which is ostensibly objective, failed to hide its displeasure in its Friday evening analysis, including its take on the Court’s 6-3 decision in the 303 CREATIVE LLC case, that a website designer in Colorado had a First Amendment right to refuse to design…

Friday’s New York Times led with the important Supreme Court ruling outlawing race-based "affirmative action" programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, with wide-ranging ramifications both in college and the workplace. The paper’s SCOTUS beat reporter Adam Liptak was petulant in defeat, seeing a delegitimized Supreme Court but also perhaps accidentally…

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.

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.…