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CNN reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ high-stakes defamation trial against Fox News, which was supposed to begin Monday, was abruptly delayed on Sunday evening, in a stunning eleventh-hour twist that threw into question whether a settlement was in the works. Opening statements were expected on Monday, but the Delaware Superior Court said in a surprise announcement that “the start of the …

The Associated Press reports: Starting Monday in a courtroom in Delaware, Fox News executives and stars will have to answer for their role in spreading doubt about the 2020 presidential election and creating the gaping wound that remains in America’s democracy. Jurors hearing the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems must answer a specific question: Did …

CNN Business reports: Fox News formally apologized to the judge in the Dominion defamation case, taking responsibility for the “misunderstanding” regarding Rupert Murdoch’s role at the network that led the judge to launch an investigation into potential legal misconduct by Fox, according to a letter obtained by CNN. In the letter, which was dated Friday and filed with the court, …

Media Matters has the transcript: The only man who has been taken into custody — or likely ever will be — is a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsmen who leaked the slides that showed that Lloyd Austin was lying. He revealed the crimes, therefore he’s the criminal. That’s how Washington works. Telling the truth is the only real sin. Now, …

Deadline reports: Jury selection started on Thursday in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, as both sides appear to be headed for a trial next week. At the 7th floor of the Leonard Williams Justice Center in downtown Wilmington, DE, jurors are being questioned one by one behind closed doors in proceedings led by Judge Eric …

“The problem isn’t with the dealers. The problem is with us, right? We’re the demand. They’re just the supplier. You know what? You want to know who the drug dealers are? “Snoop Dogg was a drug dealer, Jesse. Jay-Z was a drug dealer. 50 Cent was a drug dealer. Mark Wahlberg was a drug dealer. Tim Allen. And you know …

NBC News reports: Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis on Wednesday sanctioned Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., for withholding evidence in the Dominion defamation suit, and said he’s considering further investigation and censure. According to a person present in the courtroom, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems played recordings Fox News producer Abby Grossberg made during 2020, which …

NBC News reports: A Fox Corp. shareholder sued Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and several members of the Fox Corp. board of directors in Delaware on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that they violated their fiduciary duty to the company when they allowed Fox News to broadcast election conspiracy theories. The derivative action — a kind of lawsuit brought by shareholders who believe …

Deadline reports: A Delaware judge on Tuesday expressed anger over recent disclosure made by Fox that Rupert Murdoch is listed as an officer of Fox News, not just Fox Corp. “This is a problem,” Judge Eric M. Davis told Fox attorneys, saying that it could have impacted his previous rulings in the case. A Dominion attorney argued that the last-minute …

“Perry is behind bars tonight, but the governor has instructed the pardons board to work on an expedited review. That’s required by law in Texas in order for a pardon to occur. But he is pardoning this man. That is obviously the right thing to do. George Soros can’t pay for people to put his political opponents in jail and …

Media Matters has the transcript: Ford is the latest manufacturer that says the future production of cars will not include the AM platform. Mister producer, you saw that, right? BMW has said it, others have said it because it interferes with something or other. They finally figured out how to attack conservative talk radio, mister producer, let me be the …

NPR reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier repeatedly sought to devote an hour-long Sunday evening special following the 2020 elections to set out and debunk the leading myths bolstering Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. On “Special Report,” Baier had addressed many of those individual claims, which had been promoted by Trump and embraced by his supporters. Baier told colleagues he …

Bloomberg News reports: Fox News and former on-air host Lou Dobbs settled defamation claims by a Venezuelan businessman falsely accused on-air of being a central player in an effort to rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump. Fox’s confidential accord with Majed Khalil was revealed in a brief letter Saturday to US District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan, who …

“It seems like a real run up by the media to push for either more members of the court, more court packing or just changing the subject from the absolutely desperate shape the US economy is in and the desperate numbers, definitely bad numbers for Joe Biden. “This is total bull, okay? And I put this in the same category …

NBC News reports: Abby Grossberg, the former Fox News producer who alleges she was coerced into giving misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit about Fox’s handling of election fraud claims, has been subpoenaed in a separate voting technology company lawsuit against the cable news network. According to a subpoena dated Monday, a copy of which was obtained by NBC …

CBNC reports: A Delaware judge said Wednesday that he would compel Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, to appear live in court for the upcoming trial in Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox and its networks. Earlier on Wednesday Dominion in a letter filed to the court urged Judge Eric Davis, who …

The Guardian reports: Fox News has named the primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity among witnesses it intends to make available at trial as it defends a $1.6bn defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, over the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud in his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden. In a Tuesday letter to the Delaware judge …

“It’s for Republican district attorneys and Republican attorneys general in the states to do to the Democrats what they’re doing to us. The Republican prosecutors on the border states in particular, need to be scouring state statutes, need to be thinking about new ways to approach those statutes in order to go after Biden. “It has said that you cannot …

First, a transcript via Media Matters: In a new Soros-inspired justice system, decent people are the criminals, while the criminals are now a protected class. Here’s how it works. The people in charge unleash chaos in our cities. But if you dare to protect yourself or your family from that chaos, you wind up in handcuffs. What is this? Well, …

The Associated Press reports: A voting machine company’s defamation case against Fox News over its airing of false allegations about the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a Delaware judge on Friday allowed a jury to decide whether the conservative network aired the claims with actual malice, the standard for proving libel. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled …