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Avlon Slams Justice Breyer's Rationale For Not Resigning as 'Reckless'

July 17th, 2021 6:22 AM

CNN's resident "reality checker" John Avlon joined CNN Newsroom on Wednesday to say that whether or not liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires is a choice for him to make, but that he is still being reckless for not considering politics in that decision.

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Toobin Rants Against Justice Breyer Refusing to Cave to Liberals

July 16th, 2021 10:38 AM

On Thursday's New Day show, CNN again catered to concerns by liberals who are worried that President Joe Biden will miss the chance to appoint a liberal to replace Stephen Breyer unless the Supreme Court justice retires in an hurry.  Chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin even went into a rant against Justice Breyer for refusing to retire at age 82.

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CNN Lets DNC Chair Accuse Supreme Court of Allowing Jim Crow Laws

July 3rd, 2021 10:09 AM

On Friday morning, CNN was again acting as DNCTV as New Day co-host John Berman gave an unchallenged forum to DNC chairman Jaimie Harrison to complain about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Republican-supported voting integrity measures, with Harrison hyperbolically invoking Jim Crow laws.

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Totenberg Actually Calls Out ‘Stupid’ Leftists Demanding Breyer Retire

July 2nd, 2021 2:45 PM

The left-wing desperation to get liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire so President Biden can nominate a replacement has gotten so bad that even NPR’s Nina Totenberg denounced the “stupid approach” while appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday. She explained how such political pressure would likely backfire and ensure that Breyer remained on the high court.

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PANIC! CNN Hosts Fret McConnell Will Block Biden Supreme Court Pick

June 18th, 2021 10:39 AM

On Tuesday's several CNN hosts fretted over the possibility that Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, if he becomes majority leader, will be block President Joe Biden from replacing liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer if his seat become vacant. Alisyn Camerota seemed even more concerned about the issue than her guest, Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.

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CNN Touts Liberal Push for Breyer to Retire from Supreme Court

June 4th, 2021 8:37 PM

On Friday morning, CNN's New Day spent an entire segment with The Nation's Elie Mystal that demanded liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire immediately and not linger a moment longer so that President Joe Biden can firm a liberal replacement or risk having Breyer or a Democratic senator die when either Republicans retake the Senate or the White House.

The Loss of Liberties During the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 13th, 2021 8:18 PM

If one can say the pandemic has had any positive side effect, it has been to help us focus on what the loss of liberties looks like. Such losses do not occur immediately but erode over time as people become increasingly comfortable with government claiming to know what is best for us. The Biden administration is proceeding on a downward spiral that has ended in lost liberties in nations of the…

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Breyer Warns Against Court Cameras: Media Will Take Us Out of Context

September 29th, 2017 12:59 PM
During an interview with CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell at The Connecticut Forum Thursday night, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer warned against cameras being allowed in the courtroom, saying the media would take Justices and lawyers out of context if there was a video recording of oral arguments in the high court.
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NBC Shocked Supreme Court Would Dare Side With a Church Over the State

April 19th, 2017 9:47 PM
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the oral argument for the controversial Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer. The case tackles the idea of a separation between church and state, “The question: Can states refuse to give money to churches even when it's for something that doesn't involve worship,” noted Anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News. And judging by questions…
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Charlie Rose Spins Anti-Gun Stephen Breyer as a ‘Pragmatist’

October 7th, 2016 12:49 PM
PBS host Charlie Rose on Thursday discussed Kim Kardashian and the musical Hamilton with Supreme Court Judge Stephen Breyer. Yet, he offered no tough questions on the justice’s liberalism and instead labeled him a moderate. In a fawning introduction, Rose told viewers that Breyer “is known for his pragmatism, love of literature and love of architecture.” 
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Supreme Court Nominees Always Too Conservative for the Liberal Media

March 15th, 2016 10:25 AM

Whomever Barack Obama selects to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia expect the liberal media to worry the selection isn’t progressive enough. As might be expected, journalists criticize the Supreme Court appointments made by Republican presidents as “hardline” and “very conservative.” But even the nominees elevated by recent Democratic presidents have been challenged as not…

USA Today Initially Fails to Identify 6-2 Majority in Supremes' Mich

April 22nd, 2014 12:34 PM
In his story (saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes — and in case it gets edited later today; Update: It did) on the Supreme Court's decision this morning upholding Michigan voters' 2006 approval of a ban on race-, ethnic- and gender-based preferences in university admissions, USA Today's Richard Wolf failed to identify the size of the court majority, which was 6-2.…

CNN's Costello Bewails 'Big Advantage' Court Gave 'Wealthy' in Campaig

April 2nd, 2014 3:28 PM
On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello decried the Supreme Court's latest decision underlining that political donations are a form of free speech: "You know, these rulings continue to surprise me – only because so many Americans are concerned about the money factor...They think it's a real problem, and these kinds of rulings seem to only exacerbate those problems." Costello brought on…

NBC's Pete Williams: Democrat 'More Likely to Appoint' 'Less Ideologic

July 1st, 2012 3:00 PM
Readers are advised to remove all food, fluids, and flammables from proximity to their computers before proceeding. You've been warned. NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams on this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show actually said that when it comes to nominating judges, "A Democratic president is more likely to appoint somebody near the middle who is less ideological" (video…