Exclusive: Heading towards a $20 billion showdown with Comcast at the U.S. Supreme Court this fall in his long running racial discrimination lawsuit against the media giant, Byron Allen today tore into the Brian Roberts-run behemoth and an 11th hour intervention by the Department of Justice
“This is historic,” the Entertainment Studios boss said of the August 15 brief filed by the feds seeking to tighten the definitions of a Reconstruction Era statute in Comcast’s favor. “Donald Trump’s DOJ and Comcast are working together to destroy a civil rights statute in the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“You have one of the biggest media companies in the world, which has been beating up Donald Trump for racism, and now they are saying, we will work together to maintain institutionalized racism in America, in this Amicus Brief they delivered last Thursday,” Allen asserted in the starkest of terms of the now...
“This is historic,” the Entertainment Studios boss said of the August 15 brief filed by the feds seeking to tighten the definitions of a Reconstruction Era statute in Comcast’s favor. “Donald Trump’s DOJ and Comcast are working together to destroy a civil rights statute in the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“You have one of the biggest media companies in the world, which has been beating up Donald Trump for racism, and now they are saying, we will work together to maintain institutionalized racism in America, in this Amicus Brief they delivered last Thursday,” Allen asserted in the starkest of terms of the now...
- 8/19/2019
- by Dominic Patten and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
No way, no how and not now is the unsurprising summation of Donald Trump and the White House’s response to CNN’s lawsuit filed yesterday to have Jim Acosta’s press credentials restored.
“Plaintiffs fail to reckon with the extraordinarily intrusive nature of the judicial relief they seek—a decree ordering the President to grant access to facilities in his official residence and personal offices to a specific journalist he has decided to exclude,” said a filing by Trump, Chief of Staff John Kelly, Communications boss and ex-Fox News Channel boss Bill Shine, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Secret Service, and the other defendants (read it here). “At this preliminary stage, that hardship is far more significant than any hardship on Plaintiffs,” the Doj prepared paperwork tells District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee. “For that reason, too, emergency relief is unwarranted.
“The public interest does not require that Mr.
“Plaintiffs fail to reckon with the extraordinarily intrusive nature of the judicial relief they seek—a decree ordering the President to grant access to facilities in his official residence and personal offices to a specific journalist he has decided to exclude,” said a filing by Trump, Chief of Staff John Kelly, Communications boss and ex-Fox News Channel boss Bill Shine, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Secret Service, and the other defendants (read it here). “At this preliminary stage, that hardship is far more significant than any hardship on Plaintiffs,” the Doj prepared paperwork tells District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee. “For that reason, too, emergency relief is unwarranted.
“The public interest does not require that Mr.
- 11/14/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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