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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

The ‘national security’ panic button
Plus: Conservatives are sick of Brendan Carr’s corruption, and an Alabama university cracks down on free speech on the radio

Paramount’s sham editorial ‘independence’ board
Plus: How to keep reporting devices safe during the midterms, and a new bill would crack down on the DOJ’s creative targeting of the press

DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law
Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts

These secret subpoenas are targeting journalists
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort aren’t the first journalists to be targeted with administrative subpoenas. Unless Congress acts, they won’t be the last

White House thinks it’s above the law
Plus: A baffling capitulation from state attorneys general to David Ellison, and how his father is building a surveillance empire



