The PBS NewsHour on Monday reacted badly to the Supreme Court’s 9-0 body blow to liberal dreams of having Donald Trump removed from state ballots in November and thus denying voters their choice of presidential candidates. But PBS reporter William Brangham tried desperately to salvage the credibility of the dubious original case involving a bizarre (and now officially unconstitutional) ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, and also muddied the waters to deny the damage to liberal hopes that the unanimous verdict signified.
Even as other liberal media outlets were initially dubious about Colorado’s election suppression in December, PBS’s Colorado ballot coverage was slanted in favor of the state’s vote denial. The appointed expert was Neal Katyal, who just happened to have served as solicitor general under President Obama, but with his partisan…
