On Friday, a federal judge struck down major portions of a Pentagon policy that allowed officials to suspend or revoke journalists’ credentials based on their reporting, dealing a blow to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Pentagon Press Policy
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that the restrictions violated the First Amendment, highlighting that a free press cannot be curtailed by government overreach.
“A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription,” Friedman wrote, adding, “It must not be abandoned now.”
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