This reporter was arrested for asking questions. The Supreme Court just revived her lawsuit.
Politics,Supreme Court,Journalism,Media Industry,Journalists,Free Speech,Media Freedom,Texas
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling against a Texas citizen journalist whom police arrested for asking the government questions, injecting new life into a free speech case that essentially asked if reporters working outside traditional media are entitled to a weaker version of the First Amendment. Journalist Priscilla Villarreal's lawsuit will now go back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The judges there ruled 9โ7 earlier this year that it was not clearly unconstitutional when law enforcement in Laredo, Texas, leveraged an obscure...
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