A trio of former senior Fox executives recently published a statement expressing regret for their role in helping bring Fox News into existence. “We never envisioned, and would not knowingly have enabled, the disinformation machine that, in our opinion, Fox has become,” they wrote. While the executives didn’t work directly for the Fox News operation
The GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee was supposed to hold an FBI oversight hearing on Wednesday. Instead, its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and what I call his cadre of conspiracists looked more like a kangaroo court putting the entire FBI on trial. Bureau Director Christopher Wray did his best to professionally parry a barrage of
The Ray Epps conspiracy theory — that he was an undercover FBI agent who ginned up the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — was fueled in part by the fact that he was at the Capitol that day but was never charged. However, according to Epps’ newly filed defamation lawsuit against Fox News, charges are coming.That
Usually it’s defendants who appeal their sentences as being too high. But the Justice Department has signaled it’s challenging — as too low — the 18-year prison term for Stewart Rhodes and several other Jan. 6-related sentences for convicted Oath Keepers.Yet, while the government won’t lose anything for trying, the odds of getting an appeals
Another Supreme Court ethics controversy emerged Tuesday after The Associated Press reported that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff routinely “prodded” libraries, universities and other public institutions to buy her books ahead of speaking appearances and that she had failed to recuse herself from legal cases involving her book publisher. Given that the Supreme Court
We don’t expect Sen. Tom Cotton to act in good faith, but the Arkansas Republican’s complaint about the news media ignoring the latest Supreme Court ethics story — involving Justice Sonia Sotomayor — is almost too dumb to believe.In case you missed it — but if you consume media, you probably didn’t — The Associated
Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama would like you to know that he is “totally against racism.” For good measure, he told reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday, “there’s nobody less racist in this building than me.” Even Tuberville — who thinks the three branches of government are “the House, the Senate and the executive” —
July 12, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC / Updated July 12, 2023, 8:23 PM UTCBy Jordan RubinUPDATE (Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 4:23 p.m. ET): Ray Epps has filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News over Jan. 6 conspiracy theories promoted by Tucker Carlson.Remember the historic defamation settlement Dominion Voting Systems secured against Fox News?Well, the network could be in
In the dispute between an IRS agent and the U.S. attorney in Delaware over the handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, which one is telling the truth? Probably both.On Monday, Delaware U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “to clarify an apparent misperception” by stating unequivocally
We now know quite a bit about the elusive “informant” that Republicans have relied on to fuel some of their anti-Biden theories. We know, for example, that the man in question is Gal Luft, a director at a D.C.-area think tank who’s been charged with being an unregistered agent for China, trying to broker secret
