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VMA131Marine

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2. News organisations are broadly protected even if

Reply to TigressDem (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 29, 2022, 05:51 PM

Nov 2022

the information they publish was obtained illegally. Does the Pentagon Papers case come to mind? If any of the highly classified documents that Trump stole had made it to a news organisation, they would have been well within their 1st Amendment rights to publish it.

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Sorry. If someone has the right to a fair trial, a secret recording of their testimony is NOT legal. TigressDem Nov 2022 #1

News organisations are broadly protected even if VMA131Marine Nov 2022 #2