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Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is currently representing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone. The lawsuit relates to reports by one of Fox’s local stations.

Jesse Barrett is a trial lawyer and managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court. While the SouthBank Legal website says that Jesse Barrett “focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation,” it notes, in a recent addition, that he has “represented a prominent media company in a lawsuit alleging defamation.”  That prominent media company is Fox Corporation, which owns the conservative cable news channel Fox News. Fox News regularly covers matters at the Supreme Court and will surely continue to do so as the high court nears the end of its term. It is set to issue rulings soon on a slate of controversial topics, such as abortion, guns, public corruption, and whether Donald Trump is entitled to immunity for life for acts he committed as president. 

Jesse Barrett’s work for Fox Corporation highlights one of ethics experts’ biggest complaints about the Supreme Court: Justices are not required to disclose their spouses’ clients, so the public has no way to track who is paying money directly to their families. In her 2021 financial disclosure, Justice Barrett even redacted the name of her husband’s firm, despite it being common knowledge that he works there. [...]

It is no secret that Jesse Barrett represents corporate interests: His firm bio says his “clients have included multiple Fortune 500 companies and corporate executives.” The Southbank Legal website says that the firm has represented 26 Fortune 500 companies.  The public has no way to identify Barrett’s clients, for the most part. However, federal court records show that Barrett is serving as Fox Corporation’s lead counsel in an ongoing defamation case. He had the case moved from Cook County, Illinois, to federal court late last month.

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The defamation case was filed by Lavell Redmond, an Illinois man who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault as a minor and served 24 years in prison. Redmond was hired as a code enforcement officer by the mayor of Dolton in 2021, the original complaint says. He is suing Fox over a series of reports that scandalized his hiring — the first of which claimed he had been hired for “a job in which he goes into Dolton homes and businesses to inspect them.” The complaint says that “as a code enforcement officer, Redmond was never responsible for entering village resident’s homes to do his job, nor did he ever enter village resident’s homes. Redmond only had the ability to observe home exteriors to write code violations.” Redmond alleges that “FOX 32’s reporting directly led to Redmond being arrested and wrongfully charged with violating the reporting requirements of the sex offender registry,” as well as his subsequent termination.

Jesse Barrett, the husband of right-wing SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is representing Fox Corporation (the parent company of right-wing propaganda outlet Fox “News”) in a defamation lawsuit regarding its Chicago O&O station WFLD (Fox 32), per a report from Rolling Stone.

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Hands up who's heard of TOM LICHTENHELD?

In the late 80s, I discovered a discount bookshop on Shaftesbury Avenue, amongst the junk,  ‘Knitting For The Whole Family’ and ‘Fun With Chives’ were piles American advertising books I’d never heard of; One Show Annuals. They were dirt cheap – £4.99. For the cost of one D&AD Annual I could buy six One Shows. So I bought six One Shows. The work was a revelation. Bolder, funnier and less genteel…

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80′s/90′s M*A*S*H Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WBIR-TV, Knoxville, Tennessee, 80s 2. WHAS-TV, Louisville, Kentucky, 1988 3. WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1984 4. KIFI-TV, Idaho Falls/Pocatello, Idaho, 1991 5. KIMT-TV, Mason City, Iowa & Albert Lea/Austin/Rochester, Minnesota, 1990 6. WFLD-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1984 7. WKRN-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1989 8. WPRI-TV, Providence, Rhode Island, 1985 9. KREM-TV, Spokane, Washington, 1990 10. WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C., 1993

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DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971) on WFLD TV Ch. 32, Chicago

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Happy 45th anniversary to Svengoolie, who premiered today on my childhood tv station, WFLD 32 Chicago!

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The Honeymooners on WFLD - Channel 32

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More than a dozen headstones at an Illinois Jewish cemetery were vandalized with swastikas on Monday, police said.

Police found 16 large headstones with “large red spray-painted swastikas” at Congregation Am Echod Jewish Cemetery in Waukegan, a city about 45 miles north of Chicago, according to a statement from Keith Zupec, chief of police for the Waukegan Police Department.

Police also found another 23 headstones "that had been defaced with non-specific red spray-painted graffiti," according to the statement from Zupec.

Video obtained by Fox affiliate WFLD of Chicago shows that at least one of the headstones was also defaced with what appears to read, "Kanye was rite," referencing the recent antisemitic comments by the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

Brad Goodman, spokesperson for the Waukegan Mayor’s Office, told NBC News that WFLD's report appears accurate, but that officials “can’t confirm verbatim what was written, as the writing is difficult to read.”

Officials with the congregation could not immediately be reached.

Similar antisemitic messages referencing the rapper's comments have also appeared over an L.A. freeway and at a Florida-Georgia football game last month.

The vandalism at the Illinois cemetery comes as antisemitic incidents have been on the rise across the country.

Waukegan's mayor, Ann Taylor, condemned the vandalism in a statement, adding that she was "deeply disturbed and angered by the hateful imagery."

"Hate does not have a home in Waukegan; when such incidents occur, our marginalized neighbors are victimized, and our entire community suffers," Taylor said. "I hope our officers promptly locate the perpetrators of this despicable act and hold them accountable, and I offer my full support to those directly impacted by this vandalism.”

Rep. Brad Schneider, a Democrat who represents the city, said in a tweet he was "shocked and appalled" by the vandalism.

"Hate has no home here," he wrote.

"Antisemitism must neither be normalized nor accepted," he continued in another tweet.

The Waukegan Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division is investigating, police said.

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Tamron Latrise Hall (September 16, 1970) is a broadcast journalist, television talk show host, and author. In September 2019, she debuted her self-titled syndicated daytime talk show. She was formerly a national news correspondent for NBC News, daytime anchor for MSNBC, host of the program MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall, and a co-host of Today’s Take, the third hour of Today. She hosts Deadline: Crime on the Investigation Discovery channel. Investigation Discovery premiered a new special, Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the tower shooting at the University of Texas at Austin.

She received her BA in Broadcast Journalism from Temple University

She first worked at KBTX in Bryan, Texas, as a general assignment reporter, then moved to KTVT, where she spent four years as a general assignment reporter.

She worked for WFLD-TV in Chicago. She held several positions, including general assignment reporter, consumer reporter, and host of a three-hour program, “Fox News in the Morning”. She reported on issues related to Chicago politics and covered many “breaking news” stories, including one of the most devastating Amtrak accidents in Illinois.

She joined the national news network MSNBC and NBC News. She landed a one-on-one interview with Barack Obama before he announced his run for the presidency.

At MSNBC, she served as a general reporter and fill-in anchor, first achieving prominence as a substitute anchor for Keith Olbermann on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. She joined David Shuster as co-host of a two-hour program, The Big Picture.

She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha