They need to stop pleading...period. The press has been shut-down before and it needs to happen again. As far as election year politics are concerned, we the people can make this an issue, if we choose too. Freep the AG office, let him here from US.
Why is everything the fault of the executive branch? How about we FReep the legislative and the judicial? If this is indeed an infringement on US freedom, the judiciary must weigh in.