“Mr. Daleiden may imagine himself a journalist going undercover to snare criminals,” Orrick said. “However, he is not a recognized member of any established journalistic outlet—neither TV, radio, print nor electronic. He is, to all intents, just a private citizen invading territory that belongs to outlets like CNN and the Washington Post. There is no constitutional protection for the eavesdropping he and his confederates did.”
The First Amendment denies the government the right to say who is and is not a journalist. It also does not protect corrupt progressives from being investigated.
And this judge knows that.
I can’t tell if this is satire or not.
But activists that break security to get into farms and meat processing plants are protected by judges in California. The hypocrisy of the left is overwhelming.