Court curbs broad search of journalist’s seized devices
TL;DR
A federal judge barred the government from conducting a wholesale search of a Washington Post reporter’s seized devices and required a targeted approach, protecting newsroom materials in a leak investigation and underscoring tensions between law enforcement and press freedom.
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