Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter raising concerns about the FBI’s raid of the homes of Project Veritas employees in connection to a diary that was reportedly stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter.
The letter, penned by ACLU attorneys Brian Hauss and Brett Kaufman, was written on behalf of the ACLU, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. It urges a judge presiding over a federal case on the FBI raids to consider the First Amendment rights of reporters in his ruling.
The organizations “write in support of neither party to urge the Court to affirm that the First Amendment protects a reporter’s right to receive and possess expressive materials on matters of public concern, even if those materials were unlawfully obtained by a third party,” the letter begins.
The authors argue that journalists should have the right to receive, possess, and publish materials that were stolen by…
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