Jesse Wegman,
Jesse Wegman is a member of The New York Times editorial board, where he writes about the Supreme Court, law and politics. He has been a journalist for 27 years, first at The Atlantic and at NPR, where he reported and produced audio news and features. In the early 2000s I attended law school at New York University, then clerked for a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan. In 2007, I returned to journalism as the managing editor of the New York Observer, then as legal editor at Reuters and a senior editor at The Daily Beast and Newsweek. I joined The Times in 2013. Wegman is currently working on the first mainstream biography of James Wilson, the most democratic of all the founding fathers - and not incidentally, the most ardent advocate for a popular vote for president. He is also the author of 'Let The People Pick The President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College', published by St. Martin's Press in 2020. Wegman grew up in Boston and Los Angeles, went to Wesleyan University, and lived in New York City for 20 years before moving with his family to northern New England a few years ago. As a journalist, Wegman is bound by the same constraints of factual accuracy, journalistic ethics and basic integrity. He goes to great lengths to ensure he gets his facts right, even (especially) on deadline. Like his colleagues in every part of the paper, he gets very upset with himself when he makes a mistake. Contact him at jesse.wegman@nytimes.com.
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The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
86%
Examples:
- In their brief to the Supreme Court, Navarro's lawyers pleaded the unprecedented nature of his plight as the first presidential adviser convicted of contempt of Congress after asserting executive privilege.
- Peter Navarro's lawyers pleaded the unprecedented nature of his plight as the first presidential adviser convicted of contempt of Congress after asserting executive privilege.
- The right-wing justices, who sound increasingly like they are dictating replies to a MAGA social media thread, expressed concern about the risk of selective prosecution. Why, they asked, hasn't this same law been used against Black Lives Matter protesters or, say, Representative Jamaal Bowman?
Conflicts of Interest
100%
Examples:
- It's fair to ensure that laws are applied equally, but this line of questioning, and from these particular justices, was at best disingenuous. They seemed to forget that there is no precedent for a violent mob invading Congress in an attempt to block a constitutionally mandated vote count and overthrow an election.
- Of course, Trump's own Jan. 6 trial, which was supposed to begin in early March, has been on hold for months[.
- ]The right-wing justices, who sound increasingly like they are dictating replies to a MAGA social media thread, expressed concern about the risk of selective prosecution. Why, they asked, hasn't this same law been used against Black Lives Matter protesters or, say, Representative Jamaal Bowman[?]
Contradictions
86%
Examples:
- Conservative justices appear likely to vacate charges used against the former president and Jan. 6 rioters who participated in the Capitol insurrection.
- Peter Navarro may not have stormed the Capitol barricades alongside other Jan. 6 insurrectionists, but on Tuesday he met the same fate as many of them: Navarro became the first Trump White House official to see the inside of a prison cell for actions related to the Jan. 6 attack.
Deceptions
62%
Examples:
- The sentence 'Is it really a crime deserving of incarceration?' implies that contempt can seem like an arcane offense and may not be deserving of incarceration, but this is not the case as the rule of law depends on acknowledging the authority of justice system.
- The sentence Navarro's refusal to even show up before Congress amounted to a big middle finger to government.' implies that Navarro was punished for his actions because he refused to testify and provide documents, but this is not entirely accurate as there were other factors involved in his conviction.
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