Supreme Court Declines To Review Press Freedom Case
Source: NPR
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case testing a Texas law allowing law enforcement to arrest reporters who obtain information from government employees.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the decision not to hear the case.
"This case implicates one of the most basic journalistic practices of them all: asking sources within the government for information. Each day, countless journalists follow this
practice, seeking comment, confirmation, or even 'scoops' from governmental sources," she wrote. "Reasonably so."
In 2017, Laredo, Texas, journalist Priscilla Villarreal, also known as "LaGordiLoca." was arrested for publishing news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash. She was arrested because she fact-checked her stories with information voluntarily provided by a police officer.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5757440/supreme-court-press-freedom
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At that point, I don't think SCOTUS will be able to avoid the issue and, if they're going to agree with TX, they'll have to own it with an opinion vs. a shadow docket dodge like this.
