The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is
being asked to consider a case that could affect all journalists in America. The case involves David Daleiden, a citizen
reporter who exposed the abortion industry for harvesting tissue and body parts
from aborted babies and selling them for profit. The abortion industry has since made him the
target of a number of lawsuits.
A San Francisco federal judge who has
held Daleiden in contempt forbade the reporter from releasing more of his
undercover videos, and attorney Alexandra Snyder, who heads Life Legal Defense
Foundation (LLDF), tells OneNewsNow
the nation’s high court is now being asked to take the case. “Even though the federal judge has issued the
order and the Ninth Circuit, in a very bizarre ruling, upheld that order, we
really believe the Supreme Court is going to hold to precedent and say that a
prior restraint on speech as this is not enforceable and is unconstitutional,” Snyder
comments.
Snyder says the case goes beyond
Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation, or any of the players, including
Daleiden. “This really is about free
speech for all journalists, and especially for those journalists who do
undercover work,” the LLDF attorney contends. “We cannot allow our fundamental First
Amendment freedoms to be squelched in order to protect an organization from embarrassment,
public scrutiny, and possibly prosecution for illegal activity.”
Snyder considers the undercover videos
to be of significant public interest and concern, and she hopes the SCOTUS will
reverse the decisions of the two lower courts.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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