Magazine executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
This week, Antle breaks down the path “No Kings” protesters took from claiming that President Donald Trump is a dictator to spreading smears about his supporters.
“Liberals have long been concerned about President Donald Trump,” Antle said. “There are many people who now say that support for Donald Trump or even the Republican Party in any way amounts to some sort of complicity into this sweeping authoritarian moment in our country’s history.”
Antle said ideological divisions are tearing families apart and that they may not even be able to sit down together for the Thanksgiving holiday.
“Certainly, there are a lot of aspects of Trump’s personality and his sense of humor, which is an acquired taste for many people, and many people never acquire it,” Antle said. “But does that, by itself, mean that he is a king? Or does it simply mean that we have a former reality TV host and longtime tabloid celebrity in the Oval Office behaving in ways that are not compatible with the sensibilities of Americans who didn’t vote for him?”
Commentary editor Conn Carroll sat down with Antle to discuss how money has shaped the justice system.
“The common law rules that said lawyers couldn’t use money from other people to finance cases, to have law firms, et cetera, were broken down,” Carroll said. “To the extent that now you have just hundreds of millions of dollars being poured in and invested into cases, and they’re essentially training our courts into casinos, just like the stock market is, and that’s not what courts are designed to be.”
He cites examples such as Burford Capital vetoing a settlement to protect its investments and marketing firms incentivizing unnecessary surgeries for higher settlements. Carroll argues that this practice undermines justice, creates new harms, and is a drain on the economy.
“The Supreme Court could unilaterally create disclosure requirements that would force all parties to disclose who is financing the suits in court, which, it’s amazing to me, that’s not even a rule now,” Carroll said. “Congress could just come in and outright ban these third-party litigation agreements. I don’t think we should try to normalize the casinoization of our justice system.”
INSIDE SCOOP: SHUTDOWN PARTY, (UN)AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, MESSY TEXAS PRIMARY
The in-depth report in this episode focuses on a piece by Taylor Millard breaking down two former Republicans running as Democrats for governor. Former Florida Rep. David Jolly and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan both left the GOP amid the rise of Trump in his second term. Now, they are attempting to take the governor’s mansion by playing for the other team.
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