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MS NOW Wants Congress to Crack Down on Supreme Court's Independence

James Waterman

In recent years, Supreme Court Justices have been repeatedly harassed for their rulings and stances, and there have even been attempts on their lives by leftist extremists. This Tuesday’s MS NOW Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle covered a Congressional hearing regarding an increase to the Justices’ security budgets. After a cursory overview of the situation, the discussion turned…

 
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MS NOW Blames Trump For SCOTUS Needing More Security Post-Dobbs

Alex Christy

Even by MS NOW’s standards, Tuesday's edition of The Moment was truly something else. After host Katy Tur played a clip of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett recalling the threats her family has faced since the Dobbs decision leaked, Tur and her assembled cast of characters decided to put the blame on President Trump.

 
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MS NOW Tees Up Conspiracy: USPS to Destroy ‘Liberal’ Mail-In Ballots

Nicholas Spinnato

Near the end of Wednesday’s Katy Tur Reports, Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern absurdly claimed the recent Supreme Court Ruling in United States Postal Service vs. Kanan could lead to mail-in ballots in a “liberal enclave” being destroyed through an apparent Department of Justice and USPS conspiracy.

 
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MSNBC Declares It Is 'Bigoted' To Not Give Kids Gender-Changing Drugs

Alex Christy

MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels welcomed Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to Saturday’s installment of The Weekend to react to the Supreme Court upholding Tennessee’s law that bans so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors earlier in the week. As Stern would tell it, the Court refuses to block “bigoted” laws that are necessary for people to live.

 
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Reid’s Revelation: U.S. is an ‘Oligarchy’ that Promotes Machine Guns

Michael Wnek

MSNBC’s foremost gun-hater, Joy Reid, was particularly aggravated by the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down a Trump administration-era ban on bump stocks by the ATF. On Tuesday’s episode of The ReidOut, she invited former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern to denounce the apparent “oligarchy” that they alleged was working behind the scenes to orchestrate…

 

Slate Bemoans 'Far Right' Thomas's Former Clerks Fill Trump Admin.

Matthew Balan
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern hyped in a Wednesday item for Slate that "hard right" Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's "fingerprints are all over" the Trump administration, due to the fact that many of his former clerks now hold "high places" there. Litchwick and Sterm played up that Thomas's "once-fringy ideas are suddenly flourishing," and touted that he is "close buddies with Rush…
 

Slate: Resentment of Political Correctness Unites Trump, Thomas

Tom Johnson
Clarence Thomas is known for speaking not softly, but rarely, when the Supreme Court holds oral arguments. Nonetheless, he carries a big stick in terms of influence on both the courts and the presidency, warn Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern. Thomas, who in Lithwick and Stern’s words had “spent his career teetering off the right edge of the federal bench,” now “finds himself at the center of…
 
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AP, Several Other Outlets Ignore Hillary's 2005 Flag-Burning Bill

Tom Blumer
Well now. The press has been raking President-Elect Donald Trump over the coals for proposing "consequences" for burning the American flag. It's especially rich to see leftists like Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post invoke the name of the otherwise completely despised late Antonin Scalia, who was considered the tie-breaking Supreme Court Justice in the 1989 case when the Court ruled that flag-…
 

Bloggers on Pence: ‘Unprincipled Puppet’ Or ‘Lunatic Conservative’?

Tom Johnson
Much like Phil Mickelson took a big early lead in the British Open, Esquire’s Charles Pierce has taken a big rhetorical-excess lead in early blogging about Donald Trump’s VP pick, Indiana governor Mike Pence, calling him a “very strange and completely unreconstructed wingnut” whose paper trail contains “a rich deposit of sweet crude crazy.” Kevin Drum of Mother Jones described Pence as "not…
 

Reviewer Objects That Play Doesn't Portray Scalia As ‘Bigoted Bully'

Tom Johnson
Mark Joseph Stern argues that a crucial shortcoming of John Strand’s play The Originalist is its out-of-date portrayal of Scalia as “a principled conservative, a brilliant and complex man who resists partisan classification.” Nowadays, however, Scalia’s “ideology…looks less conservative than Republican…Twenty years ago Scalia was the unpredictable justice, the renegade who thought both flag…
 

Slate Bemoans 'Appallingly Macabre' Violence in Decades-Old Looney Tun

Matthew Balan
Slate's Mark Joseph Stern could have been mistaken for the mother from A Christmas Story, after slamming the classic Looney Tunes cartoon franchise on Tuesday for its comedic gun violence. Stern hyped that "the antics of Bugs Bunny and co. were a lot more brutal than you remember," and bewailed the shorts' "blasé approach to gun suicide." The liberal website boosted the writer's article with…