You can't have content without the capability to record that content. You can't have media about the government wihout access to government records. That's the existing standard. The #SupremeCourt has ruled on this already. Now they've shat the bed. They just allowed a lower court to block a case using the voided-by-congress legislated-from-the-bench doctrine called #QualifiedImmunity. This was established settled law before qualified immunity was innovated in the 1960s to protect a cabinet member, let alone in the 1990s when they gave a beat cop the same rules. When #AntoninScalia warned us with a chapter in a book about the court's problems, and #SoniaSotomayor agrees with him, where are the other judges? 

#WTF #News #PublicPolicy #PoliceCorruption #Journalism #1A

https://reason.com/2026/03/24/arresting-a-reporter-for-asking-questions-was-a-blatant-first-amendment-violation-sonia-sotomayor-says

Arresting a reporter for asking questions was a First Amendment violation, Sotomayor says

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the Supreme Court's denial of a petition from a Texas journalist who was charged with felonies.

Reason.com