NBC was the lone network evening newscast to report on the hearing on transgender bans in school sports before the United States Supreme Court. The brief report, however, quickly devolved into a lecture from legal correspondent Laura Jarrett lamenting conservatives’ position on continued attempts to erase women in sports. Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, January 13th, 2025:   TOM LLAMAS: The Supreme Court today hearing a pair of landmark cases that could allow states to ban transgender students from playing in girls’ sports. Laura Jarrett was following the arguments and Laura, this decision is obviously going to have a major impact. LAURA JARRETT: Tom, this is one of the biggest cases of the term. The justices now confronting a question they haven't actually answered before on state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that require participation on sports teams to be based on the student's biological sex at birth. That's something that the states argue is needed to make sure that girls aren't being disadvantaged. And the questions from the court today on the conservative side suggesting they are simply unwilling to say that these sports bans now found in more than half of states nationwide violate the Constitution's promise for equal treatment, emphasizing that federal law allows separate sports teams for boys and girls and that this is an issue best left to the political process, Tom. LLAMAS: All right, Laura. We thank you for that. It should be noted again that NBC’s was the only newscast to mention the hearing on the air. ABC’s World News Tonight, of course, had no time for such matters. Instead, they reported on Mike Tomlin’s departure as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the weather, and a grated cheese recall. The CBS Evening News was a more understandable omission, with the Trump interview taking the entire A-block and compressing everything else downstream. The only other items aired were an Iran update, a Minnesota update, and an interview with the CEO of General Motors (anchor Tony Dokoupil was in Detroit). However, we would’ve liked to see Jan Crawford’s coverage of the hearing- especially in light of her recently standing up to the language police at CBS. As observed by our own Tim Graham: Guardian “media & power reporter” Jeremy Barr quoted a pile of anonymous CBS staffers in service to his anti-Weiss agenda. He referred in this story to a previously unreported November 6 “blow-up among staffers about language choices when writing about transgender individuals.” A “prominent correspondent” – which Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani claimed was legal correspondent Jan Crawford – sent an email that said CBS “should refrain from adopting terminology advocated by the movement,” referring to guidance from the Trans Journalists Association’s stylebook. I, for one, would’ve liked to see how this played out on the air. This brings us back to NBC and Jarrett, daughter of Obamite high priestess Valerie. She had three sentences to get her brief out. The first two were more or less neutralish. The third was an outright lamentation that conservative justices wouldn’t find the constitutionality in forcing states to allow boys to play in girls’ sports after the states already enacted bans on such activity. She ends her editorial by saying that “this is an issue best left to the political process.”  Yet it is the political process that got us to this point, at every step of the way. What Jarrett laments is that the political process didn’t go the way she wanted it to go. One imagines that coverage of arguments before a liberal SCOTUS being asked to uphold, say, a California trans-enabling law, would go quite differently. Or should I say (D)ifferently.