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Espionage Act: The zombie law haunting Halloween week
Plus: New coalition of journalists fights back against attacks on the First Amendment
Get the Flock away from the press
Brendan Carr thinks he can lecture journalists about ethics
Brendan Carr: Reporting on polls may violate broadcast license terms
Ethically challenged regulator is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on journalistic ethics
Put Flock on the chopping block
The Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act would help stop the spread of dangerous mass surveillance tools that make it easier for the government to identify journalists’ sources
Florida GOP lawsuit to censor TV stations fails Sunshine State — and First Amendment
The Florida GOP should know news outlets cannot be punished for publishing information from whistleblowers
Congressional threats to BreakThrough News are unconstitutional harassment
FPF and others call on House Ways and Means Committee to drop invasive demands
This is the best unpaywalled public-records-based reporting of the year
Plus: A utility company comes for an Arkansas records requester, Maryland’s governor punishes news outlets over owner’s lawsuit, and the DOJ’s media ban gets crushed again
Court delivers second stinging blow to White House press ban
Trump’s White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico violates both the First and Fifth amendments, court says.
Rights orgs tell Wes Moore to stop retaliating against news outlets
When governor undermines transparency to settle personal grudges, Marylanders suffer
DOJ’s antitrust investigation into TV networks is nonsense
News outlets standing up for their constitutional rights has nothing to do with antitrust law
