Free Speech and Press Cases in the Courts

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s revocation of CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass and the ongoing lawsuit CNN v. Trump have brought issues relating to press freedom and due process under the Constitution back into the news. On this episode, David French, senior writer at National Review and Katie Fallow, senior attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, break down the latest developments in the CNN case as well as broader First Amendment issues in the courts today – exploring public forum doctrine, the legal battle over the president blocking users on Twitter, Facebook’s proposal to create its own “Supreme Court” to decide how to regulate content, and the potential effects of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange’s prosecution for publishing classified information. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and welcome
0:09.3	to We The People, the weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.0	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan non-profit
0:16.8	chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution
0:21.6	among the American people.
0:23.0	This is a special We the People episode on the State of the First Amendment.
0:27.0	We will dive into the constitutional issue surrounding CNN versus Trump.
0:31.0	That's the lawsuit that CNN correspondent Jim Acosta filed against the
0:35.2	president and other White House officials after his press pass was revoked and
0:38.6	will also touch on lawsuits involving the president's Twitter feed as well as possible charges
0:45.4	against Julian Assange.
0:47.8	Here to tell us about these developments in the First Amendment and to eliminate the arguments on all sides are two of America's leading experts on the First Amendment and we're so lucky to hear from them
0:59.0	Katie Fallow is a senior attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute who litigates First Amendment
1:04.6	and media cases.
1:06.1	She was previously a partner at Jenner and Block and the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer
1:12.2	Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.
1:14.0	Katie, thank you so much for joining.
1:15.6	Thank you, Jeff. It's great to be here.
1:18.0	And David French is Senior Writer for National Review, a Senior Fellow at the National Review Institute, and the previous
1:25.5	president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a great defender of the First
1:31.3	Amendment and a returning champion on the We The People
1:34.1	podcast. David, it's wonderful to have you back.
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