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Reported faces jail time for protecting his confidential source
by skullaria at 1:48 pm EST, Dec 9, 2004

Crap. There goes freedom of the press.

Hmmm, let's see...If it HAS to be a freedom, we can make it so treacherous and/or inconvenient no one will do it. Works pretty good to help limit abortion.

RE: Reported faces jail time for protecting his confidential source
by Neoteric at 7:06 pm EST, Dec 9, 2004

skullaria wrote:
] Crap. There goes freedom of the press.
]
] Hmmm, let's see...If it HAS to be a freedom, we can make it so
] treacherous and/or inconvenient no one will do it. Works
] pretty good to help limit abortion.

Yeah. I'm unhappy with this result but because I'm not a lawyer I have no leg to stand on. But this is the text to Article 1 of the Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

No where does it say that you can't throw a reporter in jail for failure to give a deposition. It was just sort of a "yeah we don't do that" sorta thing.