Amid the latest blow in Signalgate and the torrent of negative stories about President Trump’s tariffs, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used the opportunity to completely ignore word Wednesday the suspect who allegedly wanted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 has decided to plead guilty, possibly sending him to a sentence of life in prison.

Like we often see with cases of bias by omission, the Fox News Channel’s own flagship newscast — Special Report with Bret Baier — covered it.

 

 

Baier read this 18-second news brief:

Lawyers for the man accused of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh say he plans to plead guilty to the one charge against him. Attorneys for Nicholas Roske have asked for a court hearing April 7 or 8 to formally enter his plea. Roske had been scheduled to go to trial in June.

CBS News showed they were aware of this as it was given a partial segment on their streaming platform CBS News 24/7’s The Daily Report, but chose to keep it away from the eyes and ears of viewers on their flagship newscasts, CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News.

Host Lindsey Reiser announced that the “California man accused of trying to assassinate Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh plans to plead guilty, according to court filings, obtained by CBS News” for having allegedly shown up outside “Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in June of 2022 armed with a gun, knife, and tools for a burglary.”

 

 

CBS’s Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane — who’s on the national stage thanks to making obsessing over January 6 his life’s work — declared this case “quite a legal odyssey” and skirted over the liberal media’s role (along with the progressive movement writ large) in fomenting dangerous, incendiary rhetoric against the Supreme Court:

It began in 2022 right after the Supreme Court’s controversial abortion rights decision, the one that overturned Roe v. Wade. Nicholas Roske of California was allegedly found outside the home of Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh....[H]e was found in part...because he called 911 on himself to report that he was there and that he was a danger, allegedly carrying weaponry in a backpack in close proximity to the justice’s home.

Ah, it just so happened to have come following a “controversial...decision” by the Court! Talk about implicitly suggesting they brought on themselves.

Moving on, MacFarlane said “[t]his case has languished in the courts for a few years, Lindsey, in part because of mental health and competency screenings that have been underway, but, according to a court filing, today and reviewed by CBS News, he intends to plead guilty and the public defender in this case is offering up to have the plea agreement hearing on Monday” with a life sentence on the table.

If this were a case about one of the three liberal justices at the time, it’s a safe bet every nook and cranny and utterance related to the case would have been covered by these networks.