{"id":2518,"date":"2019-05-29T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:06:52","slug":"newsflash-5-27-6-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/newsflash-5-27-6-10\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSFLASH! 5\/13-5\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, Julian Assange was indicted on 17 violations of the Espionage Act<\/a>, a federal law that prohibits interference with United States military operations and support for enemies in times of war. In 2010, Assange published secret government documents on his website, Wikileaks, and now faces federal prosecution. Scholars have noted that the Espionage Act may face First Amendment challenges<\/a> during Assange\u2019s case as the legislation can be used to prosecute journalists who publish material deemed secret by the U.S. government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a\nsimilar note, San Francisco police recently ransacked<\/a>\nthe home and office of Brian Carmody, a freelance journalist. Carmody was in\nthe midst of investigating the death of the city\u2019s chief public defender before\npolice, armed with a warrant, searched his property for the source of an\ninformation leak; Carmody had obtained a copy of the police report detailing\nthe public defender\u2019s death and had sold the report to local news stations. When\nasked about the search, Joel Simon, director of the Committee to Protect\nJournalists, noted<\/a>\nthat \u201c[j]ournalists feel that they are under threat. Their sources are under\nthreat. Their profession is under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio State University\u2019s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has curated a new exhibit entitled \u201cFront Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment.\u201d The exhibit\u2019s collection of political cartoons ranges from Revolutionary War era depictions of the British monarchy to recent lampoons of President Donald Trump. One of the exhibits curators described<\/a> the collection as such: \u201c[w]e focused on editorial cartoonists and the First Amendment partly because American editorial cartoonists are the only ones in the world whose work is protected by an amendment to the federal constitution\u2026.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent\nmajor ruling<\/a>,\nthe United States Supreme Court rejected an Alaskan man\u2019s claim that he was\narrested for exercising his First Amendment rights. The Court reasoned that law\nenforcement had probable cause to arrest him in the first place, thus essentially\ncreating a new bright-line\nrule<\/a>: if police have probable cause to arrest someone, that person will\ngenerally be unable to bring a successful First Amendment lawsuit challenging\nthe arrest as retaliatory for exercising free speech.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Julian Assange was indicted on 17 violations of the Espionage Act, a federal law that prohibits interference with United States military operations and support for enemies in times of war. In 2010, Assange published secret government documents on his website, Wikileaks, and now faces federal prosecution. Scholars have noted that the Espionage Act …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}