The delay comes after a contentious week of pretrial hearings, in which Davis sanctioned Fox News for withholding evidence and admonished it for not being straightforward about Rupert Murdoch's role at Fox News. Dominion says Fox News defamed it when the network broadcast baseless claims that it was tied to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, that it paid kickbacks to politicians and that its machines “rigged” the 2020 presidential election by flipping millions of votes for Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Fox News denies it defamed Dominion