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Left-leaning news outlets the New York Times and Washington Post, have been accused of being “Democratic Party broadsheets” by Judge Laurence Silberman. Washington, DC, federal appellate judge Laurence Silberman said both newspapers were mouthpieces for “rather shocking” bias against the Republican Party, in an opinion on Friday.

A federal judge called for a landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press and libel laws to be overturned in a fiery dissent decrying "bias against the Republican Party," blasting the near "one-party control" of legacy news media, slamming Silicon Valley's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and warning that the current state of American media is "a threat to a viable democracy."

Silberman, Laurence Hirsch Born 1935 in York, PA Federal Judicial Service:Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia CircuitNominated by Ronald Reagan on September 11, 1985, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333; Confirmed by the Senate on October 25, 1985, and received commission on October 28, 1985. Assumed senior status on November 1, 2000. Education:Dartmouth College, A.B., 1957Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961 Professional Career:U.S. Army Private, 1957-1958Private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961-1967Lecturer, University of Hawaii Law School, 1962-1963Attorney, Appellate Division, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, 1967-1969Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC,...

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, the man who saved the Second Amendment. In 2007, Judge Laurence Silberman, senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, wrote a decision overturning the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns. The following year, the Supreme Court agreed with him.

On Halloween night, crusty conservative Judge Laurence H. Silberman had a scary tale to tell fellow right wingers gathered for dinner at Washington's University Club. He told in more detail than ever before how J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director ''allowed -- even offered -- the bureau to be used by presidents for nakedly political purposes.'' He called for the director's name to be removed from the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. ''In my view,'' Silberman said, ''it is as if the Defense Department were named for Aaron Burr. Liberals and conservatives should unite to support legislation to...

It is no mystery why Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush's homeland security adviser and a former mob prosecutor in Manhattan, was called The Hurricane by the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents she once worked with in New York. "You don't want to get on her bad side," said an admiring Pasquale J. D'Amuro, a former assistant director in the F.B.I.'s New York office. "If you think you're going to manipulate your way around, or not be aggressive in your approach, she'll rip you to shreds." That personality has served Ms. Townsend well since Mr. Bush gave her the job of...

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Members of the presidential commission that examined U.S. intelligence failures told White House officials that they would resign en masse if President Bush did not ensure the nation's spy agencies cooperated with their inquiry -- and had to repeat the threat more than once. Laurence H. Silberman, the federal judge who was co-chairman of the inquiry, said he told officials, "If we did not get support from the White House at any time we ran into any difficulties, I and others would resign." Click to learn more... "I did occasionally have to remind the White House of...

WASHINGTON - A presidential commission investigating weapons of mass destruction is highly critical of U.S. intelligence agencies' performance on Iran, North Korea and Libya and attempts to lay out what went wrong on Iraq, according to individuals familiar with the findings. None of the 15 agencies is expected to be singled out as doing an exemplary job of collecting or assessing intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. The report from the nine-member panel led by Republican Laurence Silberman and Democrat Charles Robb is expected next week. "I don't get the impression that one (agency) is better than the other," said...

Has the US intelligence community become too reliant on satellites versus human intelligence—spies? It seems as if a majority of America’s bigfoot political commentators have decided that the WMD intelligence failure in Iraq is due to a lack of human intelligence caused by an over-reliance on technology. This “spies good/satellites bad” way of thinking is just as misguided as the “spies bad/satellites good” conclusions of the mid-1970s (repeated to a lesser extent in the 1990s.) Gathering and interpreting technological intelligence and human intelligence are entirely different disciplines, and trying to compare them is like trying to compare the study of...

Charles Robb has an ACU Conservative rating of 8 out of 100. Larry Silberman is a Reagan Appt. to the D.C. Circuit court.McCain we know, ACU rating 77Lloyd Cutler is a founder of Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP. Assisted both Clinton and Carter and the SALT II Treaty.Adm. Bill Studeman- Deputy Director of CIA under Bush IPat Wald- Carter appointee, first woman Judge to be appointed to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.Mentioned in David Brock's Blinded by the Right: "We did not know that D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Larry Silberman was the source of the false information about his colleague,...