With these documents I am going to expose the atrocities of the US government during the Vietnam war. The New York times and the Washington post has to publish these papers to reach maximum outreach
Because of you these publication companies are violating the Espionage act, in which you are putting the nation in danger for exposing such information
We shall take this to the U.S Supreme Court
No I am not. The first amendment grants rights to the freedom of press. You cannot simply stop the press from publishing a story to “maintain national security”
I agree, and in that case we ruled that Minnesota couldn't prevent Near from publishing anti-sematic, anti-Catholic and anti-labor newspapers.
Almost 40 years later, but the 1931 case of Near vs. Minnesota is a similar case
Agreed, Near sued and won the case 5-4. The court decided that the law infringed on peoples first amendment rights, specifically the freedom of press.
All of you are right, plus it would give the public the opportunity to understand what their elected leaders are doing