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To: Telepathic Intruder

The USSC has found that you cannot prosecute the news org due to the First Amendment.

Though there is great debate as to whether that will one day be overturned.


20 posted on 06/05/2017 3:59:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
-- The USSC has found that you cannot prosecute the news org due to the First Amendment. --

Got a cite for that proposition? NYT v. US, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) [Pentagon Papers case] was about prior restraint.

36 posted on 06/05/2017 4:03:29 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mariner

“The USSC has found that you cannot prosecute the news org due to the First Amendment.

Though there is great debate as to whether that will one day be overturned.”

So, we could use our new clout in the judiciary to “fix” the media? I’m all in.


131 posted on 06/05/2017 5:08:00 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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