Inside the 1st Amendment: ; Giving Up a Source or Giving Up Freedom

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LAST week, the courts delivered a one-two punch to journalists' ability to protect their sources - and to the public's right to know about federal officials abusing a public trust in one instance and the disappearance of nuclear secrets in another.

On June 27, the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court's jail sentence for two reporters who refused to give up confidential sources. A day later, a federal appeals court put four other reporters in a different case on the same path to incarceration.

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Inside the 1st Amendment: ; Giving Up a Source or Giving Up Freedom

Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times had asked the nation's court of last resort to review their contempt conviction for refusing to reveal their confidential sources. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fi...

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