Joan Biskupic
CBS Reporter Pushes Back on ‘Extreme Language’ of Sotomayor Dissent
On the latest episode of the PBS political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, host (and Atlantic editor in chief) Jeffrey Goldberg set up New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage about the “future of presidential power” after the 6-3 ruling expanded presidential immunity and had the knock-on effect of postponing Trump’s classified documents trial and his…
CNN and MSNBC Hold Funeral for Democracy as Trump Remains on CO Ballot
Thanks to a Monday 9-0 Supreme Court decision, Donald Trump is back on the ballot in Colorado, making March 4, 2024 one of the best days on record for watching CNN and MSNBC contributors fight the urge to cry on national television.
CNN Prepares for SCOTUS to Disappoint Them With Higher Ed. Cases
Tuesday’s CNN This Morning anticipated the Supreme Court would rule against affirmative action and student loan forgiveness, cases which still were undecided hours later. Unsurprisingly, CNN preemptively decried possible outcomes and advocated for both liberal policies.
Despite Denials, CNN Reveals Hypocrisy On Dem And GOP-Appointed Judges
On June 15, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused CNN’s Kailtan Collins of referring to Judge Aileen Cannon as “Trump-appointed” in order to instill doubt in the Trump documents case and questioned whether she would do the same if the judge was appointed by Barack Obama. Collins defended herself by saying “We talk about who judges were appointed by all the time.” Now, less than one week later we…
CNN's Breaking News: Conservative Gov. Likes Conservative Justice
CNN This Morning presented viewers on Tuesday with the breaking news that Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was friends with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and that they first met three years ago at the 2020 Federalist Society Dinner. They also found it scandalous that DeSantis praised Thomas on stage, while introducing him.
CNN Mourns EPA Losing 5-4 At Supreme Court (It Was 9-0)
Senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic joined Kate Bolduan on Thursday’s CNN News Central to react to a 9-0 Supreme Court defeat for the Environmental Protection Agency. However, Biskupic told a different story and instead claimed the result was 5-4.
'They Worked Together,' CNN Relitigates and Denies the 2000 Election
On Tuesday, some private letters belonging to former liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens were released to the public. Some of the letters were related to Bush v. Gore, which gave the cast of CNN This Morning the chance on Wednesday to relitigate the case because, apparently, election denialism is okay when liberals do it. Additionally, it would be argued that…
PBS Uses Thomas to Push Reporter’s Book Warning of Scary Righty SCOTUS
CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic gives off a Nina Totenberg vibe, a longtime legal reporter who's all about diminishing the conservatives. So it's only natural that she was invited on the CNN/PBS-aired talk show Amanpour & Co. The news hook was a ProPublica probe into Clarence Thomas and his ritzy travel with a GOP "megadonor."
CNN Declares Court Has 'A Real Stain' After Roe's Demise
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.
CNN Pans Alito's 'Aggrievement' and 'Nasty' Response to Dobbs Critics
Recently, Justice Samuel Alito gave a speech in Rome where he ridiculed foreign critics of the Dobbs decision and while critics deserved to be called out for their uninformed hot takes, CNN legal analyst and Supreme Court biographer Joan Biskupic joined CNN Newsroom on Friday to label the marks as having a “tone of aggrievement” and “nasty.”
CNN Laments Roberts Failed to Change 'Very Hard-Right' Dobbs Majority
CNN legal analyst and John Roberts biographer Joan Biskupic reported on Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom that Roberts tried and ultimately failed to persuade his “very hard-right” colleagues to only uphold Mississippi’s pro-life law, but go no further in the recent Dobbs case. Roberts’s failure was also taken a sign that the Court has discredited his desire to be seen as non-political…
Toobin Wrongly Dismisses AZ, PA Republicans as Very Gerrymandered
Over the past couple of days, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has been giving a preview of how journalists and other liberals are going to keep trying to blame gerrymandering for Republican power no matter what the facts are.
CNN MELTS DOWN Over EPA Ruling, Insists SCOTUS Is Hurting the Planet
Along with their comrades over on MSNBC, CNN became unmoored Thursday morning in their reactions to the Supreme Court dealing a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority in regulating greenhouse gas emissions, arguing the Court doesn’t want to save Earth by “addressing climate change” and leveled “a blow” to the “administrative state.”
Trump v. Liberal Media: When Is it Okay to Criticize a Court Ruling?
Since the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, the liberal media have been clutching their pearls to powder while opining that “Trump judges” are destroying the Court’s credibility. The liberal media often question the legitimacy of the highest court in the land over rulings they dislike. But just a few years ago, they accused former President Trump of “…