PBS Guest Pushing Court-Packing: I'm No Radical, I Taught in a Blazer!

Clay Waters

In Saturday’s edition of the Austin-based PBS talk show Overheard With Evan Smith, Smith and guest Melissa Murray fretted about the state of the Constitution in the face of supposed threats posed by the Trump Administration, revealing their contempt for the Supreme Court in the process. NYU law professor and author Murray, who clerked for liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also…

 
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PBS's Goldberg on Trump’s ‘Almost Lip-Smacking Embrace of Indecency'

Clay Waters

It was a Jeffrey Goldberg double feature on PBS over the weekend, as the Atlantic editor in chief and host of the Friday night political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic guided his journalist guests (with three of the five affiliated with The Atlantic) through an America’s 250th-anniversary themed discussion, in front of the unusual setting of studio audience.

 

On PBS, Texas Journalist Compares Abortion Filibusterer to Movie Hero

Paul Bremmer
Texas state senator Wendy Davis has been lauded by the liberal media this week after filibustering legislation that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks and put in place common-sense safety measures for abortion clinics. But one liberal Texas journalist went over the top by comparing Davis to a certain fictional folk hero. Appearing on the PBS NewsHour, Texas Tribune editor-in-chief…