Jan is CBS’s legal correspondent. She gave the puff piece interview to Alito on his book. She’s criticized people who criticize the Court too much / in certain ways. She’s a perfect case study in why some mainstream/legacy media press coverage of SCOTUS is broken, bad, and misleading.

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Our weddedness to capitalism and greed leaves us ill prepared and deeply vulnerable to liars

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And also, this: Do they imagine that, as a Muslim man in America, El-Sayed has never considered how he'd answer that particular question? That he doesn't know how the Christian Right might respond to an Arabic name? Do they, in their wildest fantasies, think that this will be a surprise to him?

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The man's handsome, charming, media savvy, and he's been a teacher - the absolute worst place to come for him is when he's standing in front of a friendly crowd and he can set the pace. And when you put his name in Trump's mouth, you give him an opportunity to dunk just like he's doing here.

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The guy who's already got a brand that allows him to respond to your gotcha questions with, "Get a load of this fuckin guy, am I right?" That is not a man you fight by sending one-question chuds like Tommy Teepell to serve up softballs in a venue he controls.

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