machine company dominion several weeks ago as fox news lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with dominion voting systems, they presented tucker carlson with what they thought was good news. they had persuaded the court to redract from a legal filing the time he called a fox news executive the c-word mr. carlson, fox news most watched primetime host was not impressed. he told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about that executive in a private message the people said mr. carlson said comments he made about former president donald trump, i hate him passionately that were in the court documents, were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of the executive was deep and enduring. the tensions between tucker carlson and fox news leadership had been simmering for some time the wall street journal also reports within fox s management, reservations had been mounting about risks mr. carlson presented for the network. some of the
history, maybe with the exception more recently of abe fortis who resigned. i think this crisis really demands that the chief justice own it and step forward and help preserve the court s credibility as an institution. what we do now is to uncover all of the facts, which is why a proper investigation, ultimately i think, will be our job to consider we will need to take whatever action many of us are former prosecutors who know how to do investigation. whatever action is necessary to preserve and restore the credibility of the court it is a crisis it s the equivalent of judicial malpractice for chief justice roberts to refuse to come before our committee and answer questions. it is another example of the supreme court saying in effect, we don t have to answer to anyone
congress but it s rare for the court to find itself in a low public standing in terms of the public s test. the ball is really in congressional democrats court that interview with blsenator blumenthal was striking. often times they feel hemmed in about what they did say. what you heard from senator blumenthal is a willingness and desire to be aggressive here in having the senate ju ddiciary committee take the lead. you heard him call this malpractice. that was striking. you heard him say that it may be the judiciary committee s role to conduct this investigation. you heard him call for the justice department to launch a criminal investigation you heard him say he would be willing to subpoena harlan crow. i hope other democrats on the committee are as forward leading as he is on this blumenthal was the first person to call for clarence thomas to
in coming before a co-equal branch of government and talking about ethics or trying to defend what it does and doesn t do in the category of ethics is shocking it is shocking in a certain sense. it s also not surprising in another sense. we have talked in the past so many times about chief justice roberts and doesn t he see himself as a steward of the court s representation shouldn t he be the one to take the lead and impose a stricter code of ethics on the court? i think that what this letter, turning down dick durbin s request to testify, shows us that he cares more about not appearing to humble the judicial branch relative to this. that s a sad statement it might be race for sitting justices to appear before
but this is his tenure those are his years. this is the roberts court. 75% of americans had trust in the u.s. supreme court before he got there. 47% do now i wonder when chief justice roberts will let the other branchs help us help you he actually needs them more than they need him at this point. common sense would seem to draw lead him to draw that conclusion something is not working here. it s clear that chief yusjustic roberts description of himself as an institutionalist doesn t align with the data you laid out, the state of the court. we know that there are those who seem to believe that they are above the law or they are beyond accountability justice roberts either believes that s the case or he is too