What is the legal justification for keeping this information secret?
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Bottom line it’s essentially “Because we can!”. That’s all the justification they think they need...and they’ve gotten away with it.
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Fox News told its entire staff they are not allowed to use Seth Rich’s name on the air.
And they followed the order.
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this case is also bound up in the Awan case that has mysteriously disappeared from visibility...
Who rules you? Well, clearly those you cannot criticize but more tellingly those whose misdeeds you aren’t even allowed to know about.
These people should be (and probably are) in the process of bumping this decision up to the Appellate Court or the SCOTUS
Exactly! He (Sullivan) does it because he can, kinda like the eternal question of why a dog licks his balls.
Clearly, of the three “co-equal” branches of government, the judiciary is more equal than the other two. Unfortunately, our president doesn’t realize that the ruling of a federal district judge in Hawaii (or anywhere else) does not trump his plenary authority under Article 2 of the Constitution.