{"id":1922094,"date":"2023-05-01T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anatomy-of-a-washington-post-smear-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:17:14","slug":"the-anatomy-of-a-washington-post-smear-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anatomy-of-a-washington-post-smear-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anatomy of a Washington Post Smear Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-anatomy-of-a-washington-post-smear-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Washington Post&#8217;s Misleading Story on Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk<\/h2>\n<p>On April 15, the <i>Washington Post<\/i> published a story about Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that was framed as a scandalous revelation. The story claimed that Kacsmaryk removed his name from an article he had allegedly drafted for the <i>Texas Review of Law and Politics<\/i>, substituting the names of two of his colleagues for his own byline. The <i>Post<\/i> suggested that Kacsmaryk was seeking to avoid scrutiny of his views on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-ways-to-save-the-modern-awards-show\/\" title=\"10 Ways To Save The Modern Awards Show\">hot-button issues<\/a>, which prompted calls from Democratic lawmakers for an investigation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Truth Behind the Story<\/h3>\n<p>Almost every part of the story appears to have been misleading or false. This report is based on dozens of interviews with experts on legal ethics, attorneys at First Liberty, and people involved in Kacsmaryk&#8217;s nomination process. It suggests that Kacsmaryk did not write the article in question but instead supervised the attorneys drafting it, stepping back from that project\u2014and many others\u2014once his nomination was imminent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kacsmaryk did not violate any canon of judicial ethics<\/li>\n<li>It is a common practice for nominees to wind down their practices and not publish or give speeches while they are being considered for a federal appointment<\/li>\n<li>The decision to take his name off the article was in keeping with Justice Department norms throughout the years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What emerges is a picture of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anatomy-of-a-washington-post-smear-campaign\/\" title=\"The Anatomy of a Washington Post Smear Campaign\">national newspaper framing<\/a> a common and recommended practice as an act of deception. With Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch now facing ethics allegations of their own, the story is a cautionary tale of how overzealous reporting can insinuate scandal where none exists\u2014especially when the target is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-are-stacked-with-ideologues-who-reach-rulings-based-on-stunted-mindsets\/\" title=\"Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues \u201cWho Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets\u201d\">conservative judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Experts Weigh In<\/h3>\n<p>Even if Kacsmaryk had written the article himself, most experts agreed he wouldn&#8217;t have done anything wrong. The Senate&#8217;s rules apply only to articles that have been published or edited under a nominee&#8217;s own name. Ghostwriting is par for the course in the legal profession, and the attorneys listed on a brief often had unattributed help drafting it. If nominees had to disclose ghostwritten or ghostedited material, the Senate questionnaire would be nearly impossible to fill out.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, a nominee&#8217;s obligation is to provide what the Senate requested. Nothing more and nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Alliance Defending Freedom, sent an email to his colleagues expressing his excitement and gratitude for the opportunity. However, the Post spun this as evidence of Kacsmaryk&#8217;s supposed &#8220;extremism,&#8221; claiming that his work defending religious freedom and traditional values made him unfit for the bench. Despite these baseless attacks, Kacsmaryk remains a dedicated defender of the Constitution and the rule of law, and his nomination is a victory for all Americans who cherish our fundamental freedoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":1922095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[13572,4087,4899,14989,4086],"class_list":["post-1922094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anatomy","tag-campaign","tag-post","tag-smear","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}