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The Trial is On Jury selection begins tomorrow (Thursday 4/13/23). It is quite amazing that Fox has not yet settled. It is not common that media defamation cases get this far. They are usually settled before they get to trial. Fox did settle a related case a few days ago. A businessman...

I don't think the suit names Carlson as a plaintiff in this case. Carlson is a witness. The question you ask is not something Dominion or the court is asking or trying to prove. In other words, the question you ask is not pertinant to the case. Carlson will testify not about what he said on the...

Fox and its Board Sued by Shareholder The first shareholder suit (derivative action) was filed against Fox Corp. yesterday. The plaintiff cites the fiduciary duty the board has to protect shareholder interests. He says, “The Board’s decision to chase viewers by promoting the false stolen...

Jurisdictional issues apply in America. In the filing, Bragg said, “In sum, Congress lacks any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free-ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the District Attorney’s investigation and prosecution of Mr. Trump under the laws of New York,” the...

So you say, but I expect the court will say different.

It is something to think about. I doubt that the drafters of the original state constitution contemplated the scenario we see played out today. Can you see them asking in one of their document drafting meetings, "what if the House expels a member on a party line vote and that member's local...

What Are TN Republicans Saying? I've been talking a lot about the Democratic developments after the TN House expulsion vote. The Republicans are talking and acting too. "In a Friday fundraising email, the Tennessee GOP said: 'Their adolescence and immature behavior brought dishonor to the...

Bragg Sues Jordan "Bragg is asking a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has or plans to issue as part of an investigation of Bragg's handling of the Trump case. "'Chairman Jordan's subpoena is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine an...

State Houses Starting to Flip on Abortion Views "After losing hundreds of state legislative seats nationwide in the 2010s, Democrats began reversing the trend in 2022. Backlash to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, among other things, fueled successful campaigns to flip state...

Good Description of the Democratic Response to the TN Expulsions The following excerpt from this piece explains thins nicely from the Democratic point of view. When Tennessee Republicans expelled two young, Black Democratic lawmakers from the state House last week, the national reaction was...

I'm not sure I'd give them "brilliant." I'd say it was a gutsy move but not brilliant. It was gutsy because it was obviously planned in advance and coordinated by the Tennessee Three and probably the group in the gallery working together. They wanted to make a point (gun law reform) that got...

I agree. It became a huge national story because of the overt racism demonstrated by the Republican super-majority. And you're right. It may have been a less-explosive story had the white woman been expelled too. But even if she had, the heavy handed response of expulsion would have made big...

An objective look would include a study of say the last 10 expulsions that happened in 50 state legislatures in prior years. With that data, we could objectively determine how many expulsions were partisan based as the Tennessee expulsions were. And we could determine if the Demcorats and...

Mob rule? The Republicans have a supermajority and you call "mob rule?" The rules were followed. When the decorum breach happened, that rules violation was recognized and became the basis for the expulsion, which was done under the rules. It was heavy handed, in my opinion, but it was done...

I do not know that. We have no way of knowing, of course, unless the roles were actually reversed and the same kind of decorum violation actually happened. But no, I do not know full well the Democrats would have done the same thing in the same circumstances. And your point is off topic. This...

For that to happen, there must be a dispute to be taken to court. Parties do not go to court when they agree, and today they agreed. The House seated Jones today without objection. Jones did not object. Speaker Cameron did not object. No House member objected. Might objections come later...

No, he does not explain it. He simply expresses wishful thinking. In fact, Justin Jones was seated today, without objection from the Speaker or voiced by anyone else in the House.

Few people outside of Tennessee had heard of Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and state House Speaker Cameron Sexton before last week. After Sexton conducted a vote to expel the three, and the vote on two of them succeeded, all four became national names. The protest in the well of...

I saw two interviews today; one with Justin Jones, the other with Justin Pearson. Both specifically mentioned the six lives lost at the Christian school. They are not forgetting that. They are keeping the spotlight on it.