a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
judge is trying to do is limit this trial. he s only slated five weeks for it to occur to litigate the exact matter at hand, which is did fox knowingly spread false information pertaining to dominion voting systems and their role in the 2020 election? and did they do it with actual malice, meaning that they do that intentionally by saying that they can t bring up january? 6th he s essentially arguing that bringing it up wouldn t help you prove your case. and so it wouldn t be a good use of our time here. i ve been in a bunch of these court cases, by the way. sometimes they say they re five weeks. they last two months, they could go on longer, so he s trying to basically keep it very narrow and very focused. big take away from me. and what the judge laid out here is that fox cannot use anything that its host said on its air. to push back on defamation claims as part of the case, and that matters because i don t know how fox has been preparing for this lawsuit for the past few months, bu