U.S. Supreme Court

As the Senate prepared to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday, MSNBC MTP Daily host Chuck Todd wondered if she would get more votes if it wasn’t for the “echo chamber conservative media.” Irony is dead at MSNBC.

On Tuesday night's The ReidOut on MSNBC, frequent guest and justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal doubled down on his claims that the criticism Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson received from Republicans was designed to get her killed. He even suggested Republicans oppose her nomination because she's black. 

On MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle proved she has no sense of irony when she whined that Republican Senators won’t follow Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT)’s lead and vote for Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson based on her being qualified to sit on the high court. 

On Saturday's The Cross Connection, MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross used the manufactured controversy over Justice Clarence Thomas’s refusal to recuse himself on January 6-related cases because of his wife Ginni’s work to declare that Thomas is his white wife’s puppet and to suggest that he suffers from some sort of racial identity crisis.

Reacting to the news on Wednesday’s New Day that Susan Collins became the first GOP senator to announce her intention to vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggested that it is Republicans who are to blame for the general raise in partisanship in Supreme Court confirmations.

Continuing to prove that for the leftist media any criticism of them has some ulterior motive, during the “PowerHouse Roundtable” segment on ABC’s This Week, co-host Jon Karl claimed that the GOP questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her light sentences to child porn offenders was “a message to QAnon.” 

As NewsBusters colleague Clay Waters has noted this week, The New York Times has spent front page space playing the race card, showcasing the paper’s systemic racism. Well of course it has. As the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson proceeds, there is The Times instinctively reacting to what has been a decidedly civilized hearing with what can only be…

Columnists Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday for their weekly panel discussion to recap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Together, the duo would accuse Republicans of putting her through hell so that they could get on Fox.

On his Thursday, ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel summarized Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings with a parody of Hollywood award shows. For his final award, he bestowed on Jackson the “award for Outstanding Poker Face While Listening to Idiots.”

On Wednesday, the BlazeTV staff reported on one of ABC’s left-wing daytime talk show hosts offering a wildly sycophantic assessment of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson while blasting Republicans for daring to scrutinize the federal judge’s record: “‘The View’ co-host Joy Behar said on Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson reminds her of former President Barack…

On Tuesday night, during her confirmation hearings Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked by Senator Marsha Blackburn if she could define the word woman. Proving how woke she is, Jackson said she couldn’t define the word because she isn’t a biologist. As shocking as this answer was, only NBC Nightly News managed to air the exchange. With ABC’s World News…