Pete Williams is getting ready to sign off from NBC News after a nearly three-decade-long career. Before he goes, however, he may just have to report on one of the most consequential national stories in recent memory.
Williams, who has covered the U.S. Department of Justice and the Supreme Court for NBC for 29 years, is set to depart the Comcast unit after July, according to a memo issued by NBC News President Noah Oppenheim. That would likely leave Williams in position when the Court hands down what is expected to be a much-scrutinized decision on the legal standing of Roe vs Wade and the right of a woman to have access to medical help to terminate a pregnancy. A draft of a decision around a current case considering the issue was disclosed by Politico earlier this month and a final decision on the matter could come between now and the end of June.
Williams, who has covered the U.S. Department of Justice and the Supreme Court for NBC for 29 years, is set to depart the Comcast unit after July, according to a memo issued by NBC News President Noah Oppenheim. That would likely leave Williams in position when the Court hands down what is expected to be a much-scrutinized decision on the legal standing of Roe vs Wade and the right of a woman to have access to medical help to terminate a pregnancy. A draft of a decision around a current case considering the issue was disclosed by Politico earlier this month and a final decision on the matter could come between now and the end of June.
- 5/19/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
More than 50 people were killed after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor country music festival on the 32nd floor of Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Sunday, police said. Police responded to reports of a shooting just after 10 p.m. local time and found the suspected gunman in the resort. Law enforcement officials have identified the gunman as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada, NBC News' Pete Williams reported. Police closed part of the Las Vegas Strip after receiving reports of an active shooter. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said in a news conference that at least 406 people had also been injured. Jason Aldean was on stage performing during the final night of the...
- 10/2/2017
- E! Online
Retired Gen. John Kelly has officially been sworn in as White House chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus after a week of turnover and turmoil in President Donald Trump‘s administration.
Kelly began his tenure on Monday morning, with the president praising the former Homeland Security secretary during a Cabinet meeting. Said Trump, “General Kelly, he will be chief of staff, as you know, we all know him, we respect him, admire what he’s done.”
“I just want to congratulate him on the great job he’s done with Homeland Security, and I have no doubt that he will...
Kelly began his tenure on Monday morning, with the president praising the former Homeland Security secretary during a Cabinet meeting. Said Trump, “General Kelly, he will be chief of staff, as you know, we all know him, we respect him, admire what he’s done.”
“I just want to congratulate him on the great job he’s done with Homeland Security, and I have no doubt that he will...
- 7/31/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Donald Trump won't be attending D.C.'s "Nerd Prom" on April 30 - but it's not because he wasn't invited. "I was asked by every single group of media available to mankind [to attend this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner]," the Gop front-runner tells The Hill. "But I've decided not to go. Do you know why? I would have a good time and the press would say I look like I wasn't having a good time." Trump attended last year's dinner, before he announced his presidential bid, as well as the 2011 dinner, where President Obama famously roasted the billionaire businessman in a comedy routine. Trump says that, despite reports to the contrary,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Donald Trump won't be attending D.C.'s "Nerd Prom" on April 30 - but it's not because he wasn't invited. "I was asked by every single group of media available to mankind [to attend this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner]," the Gop front-runner tells The Hill. "But I've decided not to go. Do you know why? I would have a good time and the press would say I look like I wasn't having a good time." Trump attended last year's dinner, before he announced his presidential bid, as well as the 2011 dinner, where President Obama famously roasted the billionaire businessman in a comedy routine. Trump says that, despite reports to the contrary,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Ari Melber has been named MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent. Melber will remain co-host of the network’s afternoon show The Cycle while reporting on legal policy and law enforcement issues for all of the network’s platforms; NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams will continue to appear on MSNBC. Melber’s appointment comes while the network is in the midst of a shakeup of its daytime schedule at least, under Andy Lack, who has returned to the company as Chairman, NBC…...
- 4/15/2015
- Deadline TV
Careful to not make any live on-air mistakes, the networks moved cautiously today reporting the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage rulings. At 7 Am Pt, the Court released its last set of rulings for the current with two same sex marriage decisions. With Today’s Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie heading coverage, NBC was first to go to a Special Report with their legal correspondent Pete Williams first to declare at 7:02 that the Court had struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. With George Stephanopoulos in the chair, ABC followed shortly afterward. CBS did not hit the Special Report graphic button until 7:04, with Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell coming on to talk to the CBS correspondent outside the Supreme Court building. CNN reported at 7 Am that the Court had made decision but, not wanting to repeat their mistake of initially getting the Court’s 2012 Obamacare ruling wrong,...
- 6/26/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Brian Williams and his NBC Nightly News are taking a hammering on the network's own blog for airing portions of what the anchor called a "multimedia manifesto" from Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui. ..."We are still going over our own copy -- it's a lot of material -- we are talking with law enforcement, our own standards people -- and Pete Williams, our Justice Correspondent, will join me live on the broadcast to go through the material."...
- 4/19/2007
- by Ed Bark
- UncleBarky.com
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