A federal appeals court blocked DOJ from accessing the records for a group of journalists, ruling that it would deal a "damaging blow" to the First Amendment. The post Federal Court Ruling Protecting Journalists’ Sources Praised By Press Advocacy Group: ‘A Big Deal’ first appeared on Mediaite.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge must narrow an order requiring LinkedIn to divulge journalists’ communications on the social media platform to the Trump administration as part of a leak investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case with profound free-speech implications. A three-judge panel from the 4th…

In a move to protect First Amendment freedoms, a federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to obtain a wide array of journalists’ LinkedIn records in its national security leak probe. The court held that such an “overbroad” search would “deal a damaging blow to First Amendment freedoms” and…