After Monday’s Supreme Court ruling vacating a lower court ruling that had allowed Texas to place razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border without inference from the Biden Border Patrol, the flagship morning and evening newscasts on ABC and NBC had moved on from the border showdown, even as tensions rose with Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) remaining resolute in having Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard defend the porous border.
The CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings, however, have stayed on the case and the border issue writ large, with a combined four minutes and 38 seconds between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Starting with the former, anchor Norah O’Donnell actually had two short segments and a news brief. O’Donnell began with the razor wire showdown:
Now to the standoff between the federal government and the…
