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Here's a recording of my latest cafe note, freezing the free press. As always,

please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, the framers of our Constitution saw the free press as a safeguard of democracy.

The Trump administration treats it like an enemy to be tamed.

Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded a Department of Justice policy that had limited prosecutors

in using compulsory legal process to obtain records and information from reporters.

Bondi's remarks about the policy focused on government leakers, but her decision is likely to

have a chilling effect on journalists as well.

In 2021, former Attorney General Merrick Garland implemented the policy, prohibiting the use of

subpoenas, court orders, and search warrants to obtain testimony or records from members of

the media engaged in the news gathering process.

As stated in Garland's accompanying memo, the policy recognized that

a free and independent press is vital to the functioning of our democracy.

According to Politico, which reviewed last week's memo sent to DOJ employees, Bondi wrote not of the

important role of a free press in democracy, but of government leakers and their media allies,

a seeming conspiracy of schemers working to, quote, undermine President Trump's policies,

end quote. Her move restores department policies from the first Trump administration, which obtained

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