Dominion lawyer says ‘lies have consequences’ as Fox settles defamation suit for $787.5m – live

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Dominion Voting Methods settles defamation case in opposition to Fox Information

Dominion Voting Methods has reached a settlement in its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox Information, the Guardian has confirmed.

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  • Dominion Voting Systems reached a settlement in its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox. “The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” said Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson, noting that the $787.5m settlement with Fox represents accountability. However, Fox News hosts are not expected to retract or acknowledge the falsehoods they spread about Dominion on air.

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  • Senate Republicans have shown no inclination in helping Democrats replace the ailing senator Dianne Feinstein on the judiciary committee.

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  • Joe Bidenspoke last night withRalph Yarl, the Black teenager shot after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri. Meanwhile, police arrested the alleged shooter after protests over the attack.

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  • Anti-abortion groupshave filed their response before the supreme court, which is considering whether to uphold a Texas judge’s ruling taking the abortion drug mifepristone off shelves nationwide.

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    Dominion Voting Systems has reached a settlement in its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox News, the Guardian has confirmed.

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    We will post more details as they come in.

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    Speaking at the White House earlier today, Joe Biden cast Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s rhetoric on the debt ceiling as irresponsible. Here’s a clip of his comments:

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    The two men are at loggerheads over the issue, which could pose a grievous threat to the health of the world’s largest economy. Biden wants to increase the borrowing limit without preconditions, while McCarthy wants the president and his Democratic allies to agree to spending cuts, arguing that the country’s budget deficit is out of control.

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    Meanwhile, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates condemned rightwing House Republicans who want to see the Inflation Reduction Act dismantled. Here’s a statement he shared with the Guardian:

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    By targeting the Inflation Reduction Act, Scott Perry and Chip Roy just showed the real agenda of the ultra MAGA hardliners who increasingly dominate the House Republican Conference. Not only are House Republicans threatening to hold Americans’ jobs and retirement savings hostage by engaging in the dangerous brinkmanship that Presidents Reagan and Trump warned against. Now, the increasingly empowered extreme MAGA Republicans want their ransom to be killing tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in a windfall for China, raising prescription drug and energy costs for middle class families, and sending the deficit skyward – all in the name of sweetheart deals for rich special interests. That’s on top of a multitude of other tax handouts they’re seeking for big corporations and the wealthy. Like even Donald Trump said in 2019, avoiding a catastrophic and unprecedented default is non-negotiable. And threatening default to sell working people out to Big Pharma and billionaires is incredibly revealing.”

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    The judge in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News has appointed a special master to ensure Fox News turned over all evidence in the case, the Washington Post reports:

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    Jury selection in the case concluded earlier today, and opening arguments were expected to begin afterward, but have been delayed without explanation.

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    Dominion is seeking $1.6bn in compensation from Fox, arguing the conservative network harmed its business by falsely told its viewers the company was involved in rigging the 2020 election.

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    Confusion is rampant in the packed courtroom, as opening statements were scheduled to start at 1.30pm after a lunch break, but still have not kicked off as of 2.40pm.

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    Court staff said they could not explain the delay. Attorneys for Fox and Dominion appeared to huddle with each other at least once, and the judge and jurors have not been seated.

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    Each party’s opening statement is supposed to last around 90 minutes. With a 4.30pm recess today, there is no longer time for both parties to preview their evidence.

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    “As an update, I don’t have an update,” a court staffer said to the overflow room of journalists, resulting in many laughs.

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    We’re waiting for the opening arguments in the trial of Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation suit against Fox News, which is expected to start later this afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware, after the jury was seated this morning. Back in Washington, House Republicans are said to be nearing a vote on their proposal for raising the debt ceiling, but its chances of passage are uncertain.

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    Here’s what else is happening today:

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    • Senate Republicans have shown no inclination in helping Democrats replace ailing senator Dianne Feinstein on the judiciary committee.

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    • Joe Bidenspoke last night withRalph Yarl, the Black teenager shot after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Kansas City. Meanwhile, police arrested the alleged shooter following protests over the attack.

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    • Anti-abortion groupshave filed their response before the supreme court, which is considering whether to uphold a Texas judge’s ruling taking abortion drug mifepristone off shelves nationwide.

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    House Republicans could as soon as next week vote on their proposal to raise the US government’s debt limit, while also cutting spending to a variety of Joe Biden’s priorities, Punchbowl News reports.

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    The US government has hit the legal limit on how much debt it can take on, and is expected to run out of money sometime in early June, which could cause it to default on its debt for the first time in history. That would have major negative ramifications for the economy, but the GOP lawmakers say they won’t support increasing the debt ceiling without concessions from Democrats, such as spending cuts.

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    But House speaker Kevin McCarthy and his allies only control the chamber by a slim margin, and in a sign of how fraught the debt ceiling has become among Republicans, CNN reports at least one lawmaker won’t vote to increase the debt limit at all:

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    Democrats in the White House and Senate, meanwhile, say they will only support a “clean” debt ceiling increase that raises the limits without changes to spending.

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    The defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News has already led to embarrassing revelations from inside the conservative network’s newsroom, including that some of its top stars “hate” Donald Trump and did not believe his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

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    But to get $1.6bn – or any sum – out of Fox for the harm it allegedly caused to its business, Dominion’s lawyers will have to prove the network acted with “actual malice” when it aired those falsehoods in the tense weeks following Joe Biden’s election win.

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    The Guardian’s Sam Levine is in Wilmington, Delaware, where the trial is opening today, and breaks it all down here. Have a read:

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    The blockbuster $1.6bn defamation suit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox is set to begin on Tuesday in a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware, opening a six-week tribunal that represents one of the most muscular efforts to hold the powerful news network accountable for its role in spreading lies about the 2020 election.

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    Dominion is suing Fox News and its parent company Fox Corporation for knowingly spreading false claims about its equipment after the 2020 election. Fox repeatedly broadcast outlandishly false allegations that the company had paid government bribes, switched votes and was founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chávez.

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    The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday, but Eric Davis, the Delaware superior court judge overseeing the case, pushed it back by a day without giving a reason. It was reported that both sides were engaged in negotiations over a settlement to avoid a trial.

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    Jury selection will be completed on Tuesday, followed by opening arguments.

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    The trial is likely to be a media frenzy. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, the top Fox executives, are expected to be called as witnesses. Fox News anchors Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro are expected to testify at the trial.

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    At the heart of Dominion’s case is a trove of internal messages from Fox hosts and executives in which they openly say they knew the outlandish claims about Dominion were false. “Sidney Powell is lying, by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Carlson wrote in one such message, even as Fox continued to air Powell’s claims about Dominion.

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    “In the coming weeks, we will prove Fox spread lies causing enormous damage to Dominion. We look forward to trial,” a Dominion spokesperson said.

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    Defamation cases rarely go to trial because there is such a high bar a plaintiff has to clear to win. But experts observing the lawsuit say Dominion has put together an unusually strong case. The company may have strong enough evidence to show that Fox acted with “actual malice”, that Fox knew the claims were false, or that Fox acted with reckless disregard for the truth.

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    “It’s a rarity that we’ll see something of this caliber play out in front of a jury,” said RonNell Andersen Jones, a first amendment scholar at the University of Utah.

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    Good morning, US politics blog readers. The biggest news this morning is happening in Wilmington, Delaware, where the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News is going to trial. Dominion, which makes hardware and software used in elections, is suing the conservative news outlet on claims it knowingly defamed its business in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Fox was a leading conduit for Donald Trump’s unfounded conspiracy theories of vote rigging. Dominion wants the huge sum of $1.6bn for the damage caused, and the trial could see top Fox executives such as owner its Rupert Murdoch appear on the witness stand. We’ll see what emerges from the courtroom today.

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    • Florida governor Ron DeSantis is heading to Washington DC to meet with Republicans in Congress as he continues his slow, sure progress towards announcing a run for president.

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    • Joe Biden will deliver remarks on his efforts to lower childcare costs at 2pm ET. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters at 2.45 pm.

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    • A Republican-led House committee on the Covid-19 pandemic holds a hearing at 9.30am examining the origins of the virus and China’s involvement.

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    • Dominion Voting Methods reached a settlement in its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox. “The reality issues. Lies have penalties,” mentioned Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson, noting that the $787.5m settlement with Fox represents accountability. Nonetheless, Fox Information hosts should not anticipated to retract or acknowledge the falsehoods they unfold about Dominion on air.

    • Senate Republicans have proven no inclination in serving to Democrats substitute the ailing senator Dianne Feinstein on the judiciary committee.

    • Joe Biden spoke final night time with Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager shot after ringing the doorbell on the flawed home in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. In the meantime, police arrested the alleged shooter after protests over the assault.

    • Anti-abortion teams have filed their response earlier than the supreme courtroom, which is contemplating whether or not to uphold a Texas choose’s ruling taking the abortion drug mifepristone off cabinets nationwide.

    Consultant Cori Bush has joined in requires for supreme courtroom justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached, following studies that the he didn’t disclose his monetary dealings with Republican donor and actual property developer Harlan Crow.

    Bush mentioned:

    It’s clear that Justice Thomas holds an entire disregard for regulation and ethics that’s incompatible with the belief and confidence positioned in federal judges. For these causes, and since the federal judiciary has failed to carry Justice Thomas accountable, I’m calling for impeachment proceedings to start concerning Justice Thomas’s obvious violations of federal regulation.

    Holding judges accountable for his or her habits is a matter of life-or-death for our communities. They wield monumental energy, and the present hands-off strategy to the judiciary has solely emboldened lawless, corrupt, far-right judges to strip away our rights and make our lives worse off.

    Fox received’t need to acknowledge that it lied about Dominion on air, based on CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

    Though Fox acknowledged, in a circuitous assertion, “the Court docket’s rulings discovering sure claims about Dominion to be false”, Fox Information hosts received’t need to admit to mendacity to its viewers, or immediately take accountability for spreading false data.

    Information: I'm advised that, as a part of the phrases of its settlement, Fox Information will *not* need to acknowledge ON AIR that it advised lies about Dominion within the wake of the 2020 election. Fox did acknowledge falsehoods in its assertion. However don't count on hosts to need to learn statements.

    — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 18, 2023

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    Information: I am advised that, as a part of the phrases of its settlement, Fox Information will *not* need to acknowledge ON AIR that it advised lies about Dominion within the wake of the 2020 election. Fox did acknowledge falsehoods in its assertion. However do not count on hosts to need to learn statements.

    — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 18, 2023

    Reuters studies that Fox shareholders are looking for data to assessment executives’ oversight of Fox Information’ protection of Donald Trump’s election claims.

    From Reuters:

    Fox Corp shareholders are demanding firm data that will present whether or not administrators and executives correctly oversaw Fox Information’ protection of former President Donald Trump’s election-rigging claims, sources advised Reuters, in what could possibly be a prelude to lawsuits looking for to make administrators chargeable for prices.

    Traders are utilizing provisions in Delaware company regulation to demand inside Fox data to analyze how Fox’s leaders acted as its Fox Information community aired segments on Trump’s false claims that he misplaced the 2020 presidential election because of voter fraud, two sources confirmed.

    In strikes not beforehand reported, shareholders are on the lookout for data equivalent to board minutes, emails and texts that will include proof that Fox administrators and executives had been derelict by permitting the community to air the false claims.

    And right here’s an extended assertion from John Poulos, Dominion’s CEO:

    Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that brought on monumental injury to my firm, our workers, and our clients.

    Nothing can ever make up for that.

    All through this course of, we have now sought accountability, and imagine the proof dropped at mild by this case underscores the results of spreading and endorsing lies.

    Truthful reporting within the media is crucial to our democracy. Dominion, our workers and our companions are grateful to the courtroom for permitting the method for the reality to come back out.

    In an announcement addressing the settlement, Fox Information acknowledged the falsehoods aired on the community, with out going a lot additional to take accountability.

    The assertion reads:

    We’re happy to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Methods. We acknowledge the Court docket’s rulings discovering sure claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement displays FOX’s continued dedication to the best journalistic requirements. We’re hopeful that our determination to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, as an alternative of the acrimony of a divisive trial, permits the nation to maneuver ahead from these points.

    “The reality issues. Lies have penalties,” mentioned Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson, noting that the $787.5m settlement with Fox Information represents accountability.

    Attorneys for Dominion Voting Methods converse at a information convention exterior the New Fort county courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware. {Photograph}: Matt Rourke/AP

    “Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion,” mentioned Dominion CEO John Poulos.

    In a press convention exterior the courtroom, Dominion legal professional says “Reality issues. Lies have penalties.”

    Settlement is $787 million pic.twitter.com/myKyZwQXIl

    — Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) April 18, 2023

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    In a press convention exterior the courtroom, Dominion legal professional says “Reality issues. Lies have penalties.”

    Settlement is $787 million pic.twitter.com/myKyZwQXIl

    — Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) April 18, 2023

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    Despite the fact that Fox finally settled its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit in opposition to Dominion, “The stain this leaves on Fox can’t be worn out with cash,” Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Issues for America, a media watchdog group, mentioned in an announcement.

    “Fox Information lied concerning the 2020 election; all of them knew it was a lie, proper as much as the Murdochs themselves. What the Dominion trial supplied was a keyhole view into the day-to-day industrial-scale deceit that takes place at Fox. It helped illustrate why the corporate is such a uniquely damaging drive.”

    The settlement in Dominion Voting Methods’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox Information got here simply as opening arguments had been to start within the trial, which was being held in Wilmington, Delaware.

    A jury had been seated earlier at the moment, and opening arguments had been anticipated this afternoon, earlier than being delayed with out clarification – till now.

    Dominion was looking for $1.6bn in compensation from Fox, alleging the broadcaster knowingly defamed it with studies that baselessly claimed the elections agency rigged the 2020 election in opposition to Donald Trump.

    Dominion Voting Methods settles defamation case in opposition to Fox Information

    Dominion Voting Methods has reached a settlement in its $1.6bn defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox Information, the Guardian has confirmed.

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