[sickoflibs]

RE:”The court’s one-line order gave no reasons but effectively sided with the government in a confrontation between what prosecutors said is an imperative to secure evidence in a national security prosecution and what journalists said is an intolerable infringement of press freedom. “

So they must follow the same laws that we have to?

for shame.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Generally, a denial of cert does not indicate how SCOTUS would rule in a particular case and no opinion should be inferred. Because SCOTUS won’t hear Risen’s appeal, Holder can (but likely won’t) jail Risen. That doesn’t actually mean that SCOTUS sided with the government, but the end result is that the government wins.