floundering into another unrelated area...

The two are unrelated issues.

I didn't believe that then and I still don't. Unrelated.

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

how an individual granted a show on your network could utter such a statement in 21st century America.

It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify against their clients, to require Secret Service agents to testify against the people they protect, or to make bookstores tell what books people read,