You make a good point, drawing a line way back to the beginning of the Obama era. That he has been this demented for so long and people take him seriously – still looking at him as though he is presidential material. It’s like Orly Taitz has a soulmate. Nothing about the man child and his world make any sense.
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Fox News is playing this whole thing very calmly, especially now they took away the “newsworthy” defense. They either have an ace up the sleeve (SCOTUS, yes they are corruptible), or somehow assume that the amount they will have to pay would be a fraction of the 1.6 billion and therefore absorbable.
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Toppling or even taming of the Republican propaganda machine could have huge implications.
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California’s very own Orly Taitz who entered the senate contest here some time back, one which Dianne Feinstein won.
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The usual
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Don’t nobody cry in NYfuckingC.
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Surely there were folks laughing and Trump’s yes-men assured him they were crying.
They might have been laughing so hard they were, in fact, crying… 
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I had forgotten about that. The 2012 election season seems like a decade ago.
For anyone who feels like taking a stroll down Memory Lane in Crazytown, go read her Wikipedia page. There is so much concentrated crazy there, you’d think that Taitz could’ve inspired One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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If not more even…
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That could be problematic. The GOP and SCOTUS want to lower or eliminate the bar to defamation suits established in NYT v Sullivan.
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the bill for the last 40 years is coming due. I hope I never have to listen for Fox in the airport or other public place ever again.
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Nah, the judge will just have the special master do the work during the trial.
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They can always do it after Fox News is safely off the hook. Or they can make an exception for them because the events happened before the new ruling, don’t expect consistency from the SCOTUS, they can do what they want.
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The $1.6B is will leave a small mark, but is chickenfeed. They had $5.2b in cash and no debt at the end of 2022. No material impact on their business expected (per the 10-K).
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Attorney-Client privilege is not applicable if it’s used in committing a crime.
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They were warned.
Now they’ll pay.
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I find this explanation highly improbable:
Fox attorney Dan K. Webb reportedly denied that the network had intentionally misled the court, saying neither he nor Murdoch himself realized that Murdoch also held the executive chair role at Fox News.
Seriously? Murdoch didn’t know he was the executive chair of Fox News?
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This is the correct defense. There’s no way Dominion is worth $1.6 billion. As per usual, Susman Godfrey is inflating damages in hopes that it bumps up the jury’s eventual compromise award.
That’s a bar that Fox is very much depending upon in this case. Dominion is a public figure, which means, under the Sullivan line of cases, it can only recover its actual economic damages. It it were a private figure, damages don’t have to just be economic, and the jury has broad discretion to award whatever it feels like.
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Even though the judge has grumbled that he might have ruled differently on summary judgement had he known murdoch was a corporate ossifer of fox news?
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More bad legal news for the denizens of Trumpestan…not even Neomi Rao agreed with him…
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