Subscribe for free to the America First Report newsletter.
In a stunning rebuke for a professional news organization, a New York judge ruled Friday that The New York Times improperly obtained and published privileged legal documents belonging to Project Veritas and ordered the materials returned to the conservative organization.
The high court rejected the newspaper’s argument that the First Amendment protected its disclosure of the four year-old legal memos, and upheld his order that the paper not publish any further information from the materials.
“Like the attorney-client privilege, the First Amendment is vital to our republic, but also has limits,” the ruling stated. “‘For even though the broad sweep of the First Amendment seems to prohibit all restraints on free expression, this Court has observed that freedom of speech does not comprehend the right to speak on any subject at any time.’”
“‘Hit and run journalism’ is no more protected under the First Amendment than speeding on a crowded sidewalk is permitted under a value driver’s license,” the court ruled, citing an 1979 ruling involving CBS as precedent.
You can read the full ruling here.
Justice Charles D. Wood of State Supreme Court in Westchester County imposed several restrictions on the Times, including orders to surrender any physical copies of the Project Veritas […]
Read the whole story at justthenews.com
Covid variant BA.5 is spreading. It appears milder but much more contagious and evades natural immunity. Best to boost your immune system with new Z-Dtox and Z-Stack nutraceuticals from our dear friend, the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko.