Democrats have portrayed President Donald Trump as a tyrant and enemy of the First Amendment.
As Steven Greenhut noted last week for the Orange County Register, both the San Francisco Police Department and the state attorney general have taken a much more proactive approach than the president when it comes to threatening press freedoms.
In San Francisco, police raided a reporter's home and office last month after he secured a copy of a police report related to the death of a public defender and sold information from it to news outlets.
The cops were angry over the leak and subsequently confiscated the reporter's cameras, computers and cellphones.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the publicity hungry face of the hysterical Trump Resistance in the Golden State, has his own issues with the First Amendment.
In response, Mr. Becerra - "a close ally of police unions," according to Mr. Greenhut - "Threatened to criminally prosecute the reporters unless they destroy records that were provided by a public agency."
These unfortunate developments in California highlight that fending off attacks on the First Amendment requires eternal vigilance - and that "Enlightened" progressives aren't above such authoritarian assaults.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-california-democrats-threaten-press-freedoms-1682446/
As Steven Greenhut noted last week for the Orange County Register, both the San Francisco Police Department and the state attorney general have taken a much more proactive approach than the president when it comes to threatening press freedoms.
In San Francisco, police raided a reporter's home and office last month after he secured a copy of a police report related to the death of a public defender and sold information from it to news outlets.
The cops were angry over the leak and subsequently confiscated the reporter's cameras, computers and cellphones.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the publicity hungry face of the hysterical Trump Resistance in the Golden State, has his own issues with the First Amendment.
In response, Mr. Becerra - "a close ally of police unions," according to Mr. Greenhut - "Threatened to criminally prosecute the reporters unless they destroy records that were provided by a public agency."
These unfortunate developments in California highlight that fending off attacks on the First Amendment requires eternal vigilance - and that "Enlightened" progressives aren't above such authoritarian assaults.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-california-democrats-threaten-press-freedoms-1682446/
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