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Trump pushes for Supreme Court rehearing to overturn birthright citizenship ruling
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Supreme Court keeps Herridge’s source-privacy fight alive with $800-a-day sanctions
The Supreme Court declined to grant an emergency stay, leaving in place a lower-court order that former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge must disclose a confidential source or face $800 per day in sanctions for refusing to identify the source in a federal privacy dispute involving Yanping Chen. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he would have granted the stay, but the unsigned order let the sanctions stand while the case proceeds. Press-freedom advocates warn the ruling jeopardizes journalistic confidentiality and the free flow of information, while Herridge and Fox News indicated they may pursue further legal options.
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