First Amendment News

The New York Times withdrew a podcast of an interview with President Donald Trump’s domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, after the White House asked the Times not to run it since they were unaware it would run on podcast. Some of the interview was on the record, and it was unclear why the Times agreed to the request. Times reporter Julie Davis interviewed Miller, known to have white supremacist leanings, about the Trump family separation

On the hot seat for the disastrous Trump policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen could not answer questions about the location of girls detained under the policy. There are many unanswered questions about the conditions of their detainment and the effects on their mental health. (Refinery 29, June 19, 2018, by Natalie Gontcharova) When a reporter noted the absence of girls in government photos and tweeted to Nielsen,

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) tallied 44 physical attacks on journalists in North American in 2017, mostly during protests. CPJ thinks President Donald Trump’s disparagement of the press has fueled the increase of violence against journalists with 1000 Trump tweets attacking the media between his announcement of his candidacy and January of 2018.  (The Guardian, June 14, 2018, by Jason Wilson) After revealing the name of a hate-monger operating on a Twitter account followed

A California Superior Court judge ruled that a white nationalist could pursue his challenge of Twitter’s suspension of his account holding that allowing his tweets were in the public interest. Twitter contended that it has a First Amendment right to choose the content on its platform. (WDNT.com, June 15, 2018, by Michael Kunzelman of The Associated Press) The judge also ruled that banning users for any or no reason was an “unconscionable contract” that Jared

American journalists in Syria are challenging their placement on the U.S. government’s drone kill list. Bilal Abdul Kareem and Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan’s reporting includes contacts with extremist leaders but that they claim they are not involved in any terrorism. A federal court ruled this week that Kareem could pursue constitutional right to due process. (Courthouse News Service, June 13, 2018, by Britain Easkin) Federal district court judge Rosemary Collyer rejected the government’s attempt to dismiss