Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department will no longer use compulsory legal processes to seize information from people working in the news media who are acting “within the scope of their newsgathering activities”
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights on June 25. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoThe Department of Justice will no longer use compulsory legal processes to seize information from people working in the news media who are acting “within the scope of their newsgathering activities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a memo on Monday.
“Because a free and independent press is vital to the functioning of our democracy, the Department of Justice has long employed procedural protections and a balancing test to restrict the use of compulsory process to obtain information from or records of members of the news media,” Garland said in the memo.
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