Subject: [EL] message from Trevor Potter re: The Press
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 1/19/2011, 4:35 PM
To: Election Law
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"rick.hasen@lls.edu"

Trevor

 

Well, there is the little matter of specific mention in the Constitution of “the press”…as opposed to “corporations”—so it is not a reach to believe (as courts have for  some 200 plus years) that the press has constitutional privileges that do not extend to other commercial entities…

 

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