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Colbert, Meyers Struggle To Cope With Colorado's Bad Day At SCOTUS

February 9th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers struggled to cope with Colorado having a bad day before the Supreme Court as it struggled to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot on the Thursday editions of The Late Show and Late Night, respectively.

Government’s Surprise Answer on Who Can Block Users on Social Media

November 2nd, 2023 3:24 PM

Even the Democrat-appointed justices on the Supreme Court seemed alarmed when the Biden administration argued that  government agents have a nearly limitless ability to avoid criticism and prevent critics from accessing social media posts.

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MSNBC: Crow Friendship Makes Thomas a Hypocrite on Affirmative Action

May 12th, 2023 10:13 AM

NYU law professor and former Sonia Sotomayor clerk Melissa Murray joined MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Thursday’s The 11th Hour claimed that Clarence Thomas is a hypocrite for wanting to overturn affirmative action while he takes vacations with Harlan Crow. At the same time, both Ruhle and Murray praised Elena Kagan for refusing a bagel platter.

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Scarborough Ignores Sotomayor News To Ask What If Thomas Was Sotomayor

May 4th, 2023 10:01 AM

As the cast of Thursday’s Morning Joe discussed the latest non-scandal involving Justice Clarence Thomas, co-host Joe Scarborough condemned what he saw as conservative hypocrisy, declaring that if Thomas were Justice Sonia Sotomayor the reaction would be very different. He said this as Sotomayor faces ethical questions of her own.

Glimpsing Google’s Fate? SCOTUS Weighs In on Big Tech Liability Shield

February 23rd, 2023 3:11 PM

We now know a bit about where some of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are leaning in one family’s landmark case against Google.

NYTimes Wails Against Conservative SCOTUS: It's Power-Hungry Too!

December 22nd, 2022 11:01 AM

New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak sounded his latest alarm about the dangerously conservative Supreme Court in Tuesday’s paper. The online headline deck: “An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars -- Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts…

Looks Who’s Talking, Justice Kagan

September 24th, 2022 12:24 PM

Supreme Court justices return to work next month following a tumultuous last session in which the majority issued some controversial rulings, most notably the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Liberals in general and Justice Elena Kagan in particular, are upset by the decisions of the conservative majority. Justice Kagan recently spoke at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.…

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CNN Declares Court Has 'A Real Stain' After Roe's Demise

September 13th, 2022 10:16 AM

CNN legal analyst and John Roberts biographer Joan Biskupic joined Tuesday’s New Day to discuss the state of the Supreme Court, which Biskupic alleged has “a real stain” on its image after the Dobbs ruling and that Roberts is “in denial” when he tells me that simply disagreeing with the Court does not mean it is illegitimate.

NYT Hates Court EPA Ruling: A ‘Civilized Society’ Without Regulation?

July 2nd, 2022 10:10 PM

The front of Friday’s New York Times featured dismayed coverage of another conservative-pleasing ruling from the Supreme Court, this one reining in the Environmental Protection Agency. First up, legal reporter Charlie Savage’s “E.P.A. Ruling Is Milestone in Long Pushback to Regulation of Business.” 

Supreme Court beat reporter Adam Liptak also made his opinion clear in Friday’…

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Toobin Blames GOP For Increased SCOTUS Confirmation Partisanship

March 30th, 2022 11:04 AM

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.

Twitter Lefties Lose It Over SCOTUS Donor Disclosure Decision

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July 2nd, 2021 7:52 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a stunning defeat to the enemies of the First Amendment by invalidating a California law forcing nonprofits to disclose their largest donors — and liberals are losing it.

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Need a Hug? MSNBC Panel FREAKS Over ‘Racist,’ ‘Violent’ SCOTUS Ruling

July 1st, 2021 11:53 PM

Thursday was a less-than-stellar day for immature and venomous charlatans like MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid due to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Arizona’s election integrity laws, so it was only natural Reid and a cast of characters melted down over the ruling as a “racist” and “violent blow against democracy” that proved the centrality of “the Big Lie...to Republican…

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Nets Accuse SCOTUS of Giving GOP 'Green Light' to 'Restrict' Voting

July 1st, 2021 9:07 PM

ABC, CBS, and NBC were irate Thursday night after the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserved Arizona’s election integrity laws, spelling doom for liberal efforts to undo conservative-backed election protections. In the course of a few months, the liberal media went from declaring any criticism of the Supreme Court an ‘attack on democracy’ to accusing the same court of giving…

NYT WHINES: SCOTUS Is Weaponizing 1st Amendment to Protect Religion!

April 7th, 2021 10:45 PM

The New York Times invariably hails liberal Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage, abortion, and opposing big money in politics. But when the nation’s highest court issues rulings on freedom of religion and free expression that are celebrated by conservatives, it’s a threatening pattern suddenly worthy of concerned scrutiny. Witness Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak’s “Sidebar”…