Nothing to do with his qualifications. They are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the Supreme Court. Kneneil gorsuch a good man. Its the democrats who are breaking the rules, what theyre doing is changing the 200 year status quo. The ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. That, of course, was president s garlands dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. It was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. Which Mitch Mcconnell on the Campaign Trail later, one of my proudest moments. The Garland Affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president ,
theres new in washington. Just four Democratic Senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough reelection battles. Theyve vowed to c
systems. high stakes defamation trial against fox news is being delayed us court announced hours ago that the case, which was supposed to start monday morning, has now been delayed until tuesday. change comes as the wall street journal is reporting that fox has made a late push to settle the dispute out of court. legal experts have expressed surprise that fox hasn t yet settle the case, avoiding what s expected to be in excruciating, embarrassing several weeks. for the news network, the super pac urging florida governor ron desantis to run for president in 2024 turned to fox news on sunday to run his first national television ad. the focus of the spot was donald trump. donald trump has been attacked by a democratic prosecutor in new york. so why is he spending millions attacking the republican governor of florida trump s stealing pages from the biden pelosi playbook, repeating lies about social security should fight democrats not lie about governor desantis. what happened to donald tru
and so they want to include these arguments, and i ll just say two. fox is trying to say that their emotions are just aimed at bringing this to the core of the case. dominion obviously disagreeing, but it s a big case. we re talking $1.6 billion defamation case. is there a possibility of a settlement? there s always the possibility of the settlement, and it could come at any time. it could come during jury selection or even after jury selection, which is set to begin on thursday of next week. we don t know everyone i talked to the lawyers have talked to. they re kind of surprised at this. point that fox hasn t settled this because it s going to be such an uncomfortable trial for them. they re going to have their biggest stars sean hannity, tucker, carlson and others on the stand, and you re also going to have rupert murdoch. lachlan murdoch, the chief executive, suzanne scott. all of these people will be forced to take the witness stand and talk about what they knew about election live
trial. getting any word about might be fox trying to settle this behind the scenes every time more information comes out, i m surprised that fox hasn t tried to just make this go away with a pile of money? they never have, and they have known about this lawsuit, you know, since 2021, katy rupert murdoch has settled many many cases for far less money that were far less damaging to the brand that his business is, but fox has been told, i m told, by its counsel that this is winnable i think often they have badly misjudged just how winnable this is we know, for example, that they were replaced their old legal team with their new legal team after a series of setbacks with this judge they did not expect the judge to be this hostile, hostile is probably the wrong word. he has been applying the law in
decisions are based on pure numbers and revenue and probably overseen by the wizard of oz himself, rupert murdoch, i still don t understand why fox hasn t tried to settle this. it s going to be hugely embarrassing for them to be in court. they ll have carlson talking and having to testify to this. it seems like all of the acknowledgment in their internal communications that the facts were indeed the facts they just quote pissed off the viewers, seemed to settle any questions about the intent to lie, they all knew the truth was, that biden won. rupert said there were zero questions after fox s own decision desk called the election for joe biden. absolutely right, nicolle. but it s also important to remember that dominion doesn t have to show any intent.