Inside The First Amendment Fight For The Nashville Trans Shooter’s Manifesto

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO of Star News Digital Media and editor-in-chief of the Star News Network, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to break down the First Amendment battle over The Covenant School shooter's journals and explain why a judge is stonewalling the publication of documents detailing the perpetrator's plans to kill students and teachers at the Christian campus.

Read more about the legal fight to report on the Nashville trans shooter manifesto here.

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0:00.0	You're going to go. And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.0	I'm Matt Kittles, Senior Elections Correspondent
0:22.7	at the Federalist, and your experience Sherpa
0:25.5	on today's quest for knowledge.
0:27.8	As always, you can email the show at radio
0:30.6	at the Federalist.com.
0:32.3	Follow us on X at fDR LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download
0:38.6	your podcast and of course to the premium version of our website as well. I'm joined today by Michael Patrick Leahy. He is the CEO,
0:47.3	editor-in-chief and majority owner of Star News Digital Media, which owns and operates a family of state-focused
0:55.5	conservative news sites. Those news sites, one of them includes the
0:59.4	Tennessee Star, which of course has become really quite a point of national interest,
1:07.8	international interest in fact over a very important battle on the First Amendment.
1:14.5	Michael Patrick Leahy, thanks so much for joining us today
1:17.1	on the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:18.9	And that is so great to be with you,
1:20.9	and just for all of your listeners,
1:22.4	because you're too modest to say that.
1:24.8	Because we've worked together.
1:25.9	You are one of the most outstanding journalists in the country today.
1:30.7	So tip of the hat to you. Well you're very kind for saying that and we've
1:34.9	gotten to know each other very well over the last couple of years. Full
1:38.8	disclosure, Michael Patrick Leahy was my former boss and operates a tremendous news organization where I was proud to work and cover politics and cover all kinds of things, including the story that we're really talking about and
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