FLASHBACK: ABC Attacked Last Court Pick as ‘Controversial’ Without Knowing Who It Was!
Scott Whitlock
September 26th, 2020 12:15 PM
In just a few hours, at 5 PM on Saturday, Donald Trump will announce his third Supreme Court. With wide speculation that it might be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, we thought it would be good to look back at the last Supreme Court nominee, one that journalists worried would send “shivers†down the spines of liberals. At 7:23 PM ET on July 9, 2018, ABC’s Nightline tweeted that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee would be “controversial,†without even knowing who it was!
This led to an awkward correction tweet: “Tonight on Nightline, @TerryMoran reports on the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court Justice pick and the possible implications for the country.â€
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/09/26/flashback-abc-attacked-last-court-pick-controversial-without
