Subject: [EL] message from Trevor Potter re: The Press |
From: Rick Hasen |
Date: 1/19/2011, 4:35 PM |
To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "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…