than $725 billion for lawsuits and without its biggest, brightest star, tucker carlson the new york times reports that his departure is made more stun big the fact that the network did nothing after carlson pushed the envelope over and over, pedaling inflammatory information. quote, the network stuck by him after carlson claimed that immigration had made america, quote, poor and dirty. he seemed to shrug off a racist conspiracy theory known as the great replacement, along with the fact that when russia invaded ukraine, he seemed to promote russia s point of view the fallout from carlson s ouster is unclear. quote, mr. carlson s rise prefigured trump s takeover of the republican party his own conversion from bow tied libertarian to popularist remade the party. he prospered with trump s presidency he made frank nativism the primary touch stones of republican politics. if fox and its host prospered because of trump, their efforts to deny the presidential results threw the netw
thinking we re going to surf the next one, surf the next one. nothing is going to change people will forget i think what you re hearing from this panel and i m sensing it, too, is that the public won t tolerate that for a lot longer, whether john roberts wants to use his informal powers or keep signaling he s given up, that s a question i can t answer. the meeting has to be a meeting about the legitimacy of the court. it can t be about ginni thomas coup activities or gorsuch s or thomas incomplete ethics form or thomas weird relationship with a billionaire and something called a super yacht, which is bigger than a regular yacht. it has to be a meeting where something more lofty, more weighty is discussed the way i can imagine about someone who cares about john roberts suggesting the meeting go down, 80% of the public wants
i ll get it right i m sorry that was botched why is this so hard? i don t care about gorsuch or thomas this is the roberts court. why is this so hard for john roberts? roberts doesn t have a lot of authority even though he s the chief justice. the real question is why is it so hard for gorsuch and thomas these latest revelations, it s another self-inflicted wound the big problem is the basic american principle, you re not supposed to a judge in your own cause, and it s left to them that blank box really does stand out, and the specific incident with harlan crow, maybe thomas wouldn t have known it the big problem is they re deciding for themselves and really leading again and again with their children. it s not clear if roberts, if he
dahlia, senator whitehouse leading a committee on ethics is something i would buy a ticket and popcorn to watch i don t accept that this is unchangeable i think there s a bottom there has to be a bottom in john roberts mind. i think about 20% of people have high esteem for the court. approval ratings have plunged faster than congress, the media, just about any institution in american civic life. they re leaking more than most campaigns, certainly more than fox news this is a reputational crisis. i imagine the incomplete ethics forms compiled by gorsuch are not the end of the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip on the ethics front. this partly goes to harry s point about the extent to which