against the giant of right where i think media and one of the big purchase vsayers of collection fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial. sayern fraud conspiracy today was supposed to be day one of the blockbuster trial but they said that it was pushed back to tuesday. no official reason was given judge davis said this morning that it was not unusual for delays like this but the wall street journal which happens to be owned by the murdoch family reports fox has made a late push to settle the dispute with dominion voting systems out of court, that is according to people familiar with the situation the washington post reports this, two people familiar with the case said that two sides are scheduled to meet monday to determine if a last minute deal to avoid trial could be brokered one of the people said that the judge had asked the parties to make a final effort to settle the issue before proceeding with the trial. these talks are happening
look at all the things, all the case that s are based on some more similar constitutional rationale including the right to birth control, the right to gay marriage so it s interesting that this is all coming to a head, and it seems to all be circling around justice clarence thomas. i mean, cecile, it does beg the question about how we cover the supreme court. why aren t there cameras in the court? why isn t there a massive press corps the way there s a massive press corps that runs all over congress that works literally inside the white house i mean, some of it, right, is on all of us for not asking these questions and following the money sooner whatever the reason, it appears to be a new era in part because of the decisions and opinions like what you re talking about but whether roberts realizes it or not, whether thomas realizes it or not, this is a whole different degree of scrutiny on the court. absolutely. and should be. i mean, it is i think there s
done more to push house republicans to the right forcing more mainstream and establishment figures in the party to cede ground to the arch conservatives. and where that has brought most republicans in most swing states is to render them nearly unelectable. the jim jordan mission is catastrophic compared to their own last effort at politicization in the malhalls f congress he is a 145d dough of what that committee was, he is a joke, like an incompetence imitation of what that effort was. and so i presume that luke s reporting is accurate. he is the person most responsible for lurching the party to the right to be unelectable fringe it is not working. it counts for a lot of their less than grand outcomes in the midterms than it has people from the right and the left at the journalist and operative level very neervous for 24.
dollars were spent to get him and maybe them there we don t know. because we don t know if there s not the proper type of oversight and ethical requirements in place to make sure that these types of things don t happen and finally i guess when you look at it in terms of the responsibility of the press the one thing i would say is in the past this was always boring. everybody waited till june before the press got hyped up about the supreme court. now boring has been replaced by words like distrust, has been replaced by words like political, and we ll see now if that coverage increases, unlike it has in the past michael steele, if elena kagan s car broke down and george soros gave her a ride to the next gas station, there would be benghazi-style hearings in congress. it s not that republicans don t care about lack of ethics. you talk about conflict of
crime, they would go to places where the crime is the highest, right? you could pick out plenty of cities in the country dealing with crime issues right now, some run by democrats. but they can t do that because what this really was was an attempt to run cover for donald trump. donald trump still runs the show, still runs the party, and he hamstrings them and you get the clown show that we got today. on your point about jim jordan, let me read you some of luke s great reporting today over eight terms in the house, jordan has not been the lead sponsor of a single bill that became law earning him a perennial ranking from the center for effective lawmakers as among the least effective members of congress. he is also the chairman of a powerful new subcommittee created at the insistence of right wing republicans to scrutinize what they call weaponization of government against conservatives which has yet to produce any new bombshell revelations despite a budget of $20 million a year no sin