Networks Omit Justice Brown Jackson's Name From Her SNAP Decision
Last Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, granted a request by the Trump administration, to temporarily stay a lower court ruling which ordered the government to fully fund SNAP for the rest of this month, until the First Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on the case. Significant news, yet mysteriously when it came time to report on this story, Justice Brown Jackson's…
PBS Claims Redistricting 'Race To The Bottom' Is GOP's Fault
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe counterpart Kimberly Atkins Stohr joined forces on Friday’s PBS News Hour to lament the nation’s redistricting “race to the bottom,” which they blamed solely on Republicans.
NAACP: White Democrat Voters ‘Will Not Vote for Black Candidates’
The Supreme Court is considering a Louisiana redistricting case that could have a greater impact on U.S. House of Representatives seats than the Texas and California “gerrymandering” maneuvers combined. The New York Times wrote, “Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.”…
Mystal Calls Judge Roberts 'Biggest Enemy' of Blacks Since Dred Scott
On Sunday's Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal charged that Chief Justice John Roberts is the "biggest enemy towards black people" on the Supreme Court since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision from 1857.
Psaki Freaks Out That SCOTUS Is Helping GOP 'Rig' Elections
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki delivered a factually challenged monologue on Wednesday’s The Briefing. As Psaki tells it, if the Supreme Court rules that race-based gerrymandering in the form of majority-black districts is unconstitutional, it will be helping Republicans “rig” elections by allowing them to racially gerrymander themselves 19 additional House seats. Of course, that makes zero sense…
CNN Freaks Out That SCOTUS Might Do Away With Race-Based Districts
As the Supreme Court gathered to determine the fate of race-based congressional districts, the cast of CNN’s Wednesday edition of Inside Politics gathered for its corresponding freak-out session. Most notably, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Washington Bureau Chief Tia Mitchell tried to claim that such districts are still necessary because black voters are still being…
Maddow Dubs Harris 'The Patron Saint of 'I Told You So''
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to her Monday show to promote her new book and label her the “Patron saint of 'I told you so'” on how President Trump represents a threat to all things good and decent.
Colbert's Supreme Court Straw Man Was So Bad Even Sotomayor Objected
On Tuesday, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert became the latest stop on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s book tour, but the eponymous host got more than he bargained for when his straw man portrayal of a recent decision involving ICE was so bad, even the dissenting liberal justice had to correct him on it.
Stewart Accuses SCOTUS Of Letting Trump 'Nullify The Fourth Amendment'
The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday after over a month off, with Jon Stewart wasting no time getting back into old form by hysterically warning that the Supreme Court just green-lit President Trump and ICE to “nullify the Fourth Amendment” with their immigration raids.
CNN Trashes Barrett's New Memoir For Defending Overturning Roe
As Justice Amy Coney Barrett releases her new memoir, CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic couldn’t help but trash the part of the book where Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade. On Tuesday’s The Situation Room, Biskupic claimed that Barrett’s argument that Roe undermined the democratic process was bad because the Constitution is to be interpreted to protect…
Carville Demands Dems Add States, SCOTUS Seats 'To Save Democracy'
Former Clinton strategist James Carville does a podcast with former Clinton cheerleading journalist Al Hunt, and on their Wednesday recording of Politicon's Politics War Room, they reacted to the redistricting battle currently going on in Texas. While Hunt claimed Republicans are “fighting dirty,” Carville gave the game away and claimed that in order “to save democracy,” Democrats…
MSNBC Contributor: Trump A Threat To The 'Undocumented Community'
On Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Maria Teresa Kumar describes Trump as a threat to the "undocumented community," using them as a canary in the coal mine to see how far he can push his powers.
Jennings Triggers Panelists After Claiming Trump Had Best Week Of Term
CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip may have decided to try something new on Friday by taking her roundtable of panelists to the set of the Food Network, but one thing that remained the same was MRC Bulldog Award winner Scott Jennings triggering his liberal colleagues. This time, Jennings argued Trump had the “best week or two weeks” of his term, punctuated by the Supreme Court’s ruling…
CBS Mornings Revives Gay Rights Fear Mongering – After Saying Opposite
During Friday’s CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz invited Kevin Jennings, CEO of the activist group Lambda Legal, to stoke fears that Obergefell v. Hodges might be in jeopardy. The segment unfolded as a slow‑burn panic session as the trio lamented over how anti-LGBTQ sentiment has supposedly grown since the Obergefell ruling was delivered by the…
