The rhetoric in the attack ad mirrors the approach by Senate Republicans during Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing.
by the campaign arm for Senate Republicans after they were informed it had a false statement and language about North Carolina Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley and her record as a former state Supreme Court chief justice.
Beasley and the court heard a case on whether police could search a USB drive belonging to the man charged in the case, James Howard Terrell Jr., without a warrant. She and a majority of the courtthat the search had not been permissible under the"private-search doctrine" and sent the matter back to the lower court, but did not directly vote to set Terrell Jr. free.
"The defendant was not set free by the ruling as the ad claims. CMG will not run the ad when it contains a false statement on material issue. This ad has been removed from airing," wrote a representative for WSOC-TV and WAXN-TV in Charlotte, N.C., in a letter first obtained by CBS News.Washington Free Beacon
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