Subject: Re: [EL] message from Trevor Potter re: The Press
From: Steve Hoersting
Date: 1/19/2011, 5:08 PM
To: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" <rick.hasen@lls.edu>
CC: Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

"the press" is an activity, Trevor,

Steve

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Rick Hasen <hasenr@gmail.com> wrote:

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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