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Fox settled with Dominican Voting Systems for $787.5 million as the defamation lawsuit was just underway. Fox released a statement acknowledging “…the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false” but is not expected to be required to issue an a correction or apology for broadcasting lies about election-rigging during the 2020 presidential election. (Reuters, April 18, 2023, by Helen Coster and Jack Queen) Law professor Catherine Ross says that with the settlement

A Oklahoma county sheriff and other county officials discussed killing two local reporters and lynching Black people, prompting Governor Kevin Stitt to called for them to resign. (The Hill, April 17, 2023, by Cheyanne M. Daniels) The FBI is investigating the officials who expressed their frustrations at not being able to beat up and lynch Blacks and their wanting to hire a hit man to kill two reporters of the local newspaper who had done

Tom Jones in Poynter, April 11, 2023, reports that the State Department designated Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich “wrongfully detained.” The Russians arrested him last month for espionage. The designation means our government is denying that he is a spy and that the case will be handled by the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs that negotiates the release of hostages. The editorial board of the Financial Times, April 4, 2023,

A ProPublica investigation, April 6, 2023, by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski revealed that for the last 20 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted luxury vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow without listing them in his financial disclosures. Crow has been active in promoting conservative causes. Crow’s law firm has not had a Supreme Court case when Thomas has been on the bench, and Crow said he has never tried to influence

A few days after the mass shooting at a Nashville school, Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel two Black members for leading a gun reform demonstration on the House floor. In the interests of decorum, Republicans sidelined the need for debate on gun control, said Martin Luther King III. Tennessee director of the American Civil Liberties Union Kathy Sinback said the expulsions were without due process, and raised “questions about the disparate treatment of Black