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"AG Pam Bondi is going to start locking up journalists: 'Safeguarding classified, privileged, and other sensitive information is essential to effective governance and law enforcement. Fed govt employees intentionally leaking sensitive information to the media undermines the ability of the DOJ to uphold the rule of law, protect civil rights, and keep America safe.'"

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Bondi #media #FreedomofPress #journalists #authoritarianism #fascism
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"'This conduct is illegal and wrong, and it must stop. Therefore, I have concluded that it is necessary to rescind Merrick Garland's policies precluding DOJ from seeking records and compelling testimony from members of the news media in order to identify and punish the source of improper leaks.'

Trump has called for this repeatedly in the past."

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"Under this new policy, they will now subpoena reporters before grand juries and ask them to reveal their anonymous sources. When they refuse, they will be jailed for contempt. This is going to lead to more very high stakes First Amendment lawsuits against the authoritarian Trump regime."

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