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Massachusetts judge, Shelly Joseph was federally charged with obstruction of justice on Thursday for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade capture by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. It’s not the person liberals hoped would get charged with obstruction, so that might partially explain why CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News avoided covering the topic that evening.
To ABC’s credit, World News Tonight was the only broadcast news program in the big three to cover the judge’s indictment. As for the major Spanish-language networks, Telemundo was the only one to give it any airtime with a whopping 29 seconds. Univision failed to report it.
“Next tonight, to a federal grand jury. How it issued a blockbuster indictment of a Massachusetts judge, and a former court officer. They’re accused of allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent,” announced fill-in anchor Tom Llamas. “The high profile case, a showdown between both federal law and a sanctuary city.”
If you thought ABC would take the side of the judge, you’d be wrong. Shocking, isn’t it. The report by correspondent Gio Benitez was straight down the middle.
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