The 2020 2020 Presidential Election: Fox News and Dominion in a Delaware Superior Court ruled that the case against Fox News goes to trial

The trial in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems will be held next month, a Delaware judge ruled Friday.

The media is protected by the First Amendment for its right to cover the news. FOX will continue to fiercely advocate for the rights of free speech and a free press as we move into the next phase of these proceedings,” a Fox spokesperson said in a statement.

The sides asked Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis for a ruling in their favor. The case should go to trial after a number of courtroom battles and thousands of pages of documents.

“The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true,” Davis wrote.

“We are gratified by the Court’s thorough ruling soundly rejecting all of Fox’s arguments and defenses, and finding as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false. We look forward to going to trial,” a Dominion spokesperson said in a statement.

“The context supports the position that the statements were not pure opinion when they were made by newscasters holding themselves out to be sources of accurate information,” Davis wrong in his 130-page ruling.

Texts and emails released as part of the lawsuit shows how Fox employees privately mocked Trump’s election fraud claims even as the network amplified them to appease viewers.

Donald Trump encouraged his followers to switch to Newsmax after attacking Fox News. And, in the days and weeks after the presidential contest had been called, they did just that. Fox News shed a chunk of its audience while Newsmax gained significant viewership, leading to panic inside the building and prompting network leadership to embrace the election denialism that enveloped a large part of the Republican Party.

Emails that lawyers for Dominion have used to build their defamation case give a peek into how Rupert Murdoch shapes coverage at his news organizations.

A Fox News producer has filed lawsuits in New York and Delaware, accusing Fox lawyers of coercing her into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion case.

Reply to Comment on Electoral Fraud and the Use of Electronic Voting Machines in the United States”

On Nov. 24 of 2020, Mr. Dobbs said that many Americans would not give thought to electoral fraud if they used electronic voting machines.

A law professor at the University of Utah said the judge disagreed with many of the arguments made by Fox.