{"id":7143,"date":"2019-11-24T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2019-11-24T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T17:24:48","slug":"freedom-to-write-a-root-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Write\u2013A Root of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Write_IMG_4142.jpg\" alt=\"Postage Stamp\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/aclu-journalists-sue-trump-administration-first-amendment-violations-us-mexico-border-1473295?utm_source=GoogleNewsstandUS&#038;utm_medium=Feed&#038;utm_campaign=Partnerships\" >JOURNALISTS ALLEGEDLY &#8216;Tracked&#8217; And &#8216;Interrogated&#8217; By DHS While Reporting On Border Sue Trump Administration &#8216;To Defend Free Speech&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, asserts that on &#8220;multiple separate occasions,&#8221; U.S. government officials demanded that the journalists participate in a &#8220;secondary screening&#8221; at the border and requested that they disclose information about their sources.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/first_amendment\" >US Constitution Amendment I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/\" >Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\" >Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURNALISTS ALLEGEDLY &#8216;Tracked&#8217; And &#8216;Interrogated&#8217; By DHS While Reporting On Border Sue Trump Administration &#8216;To Defend Free Speech&#8217; The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, asserts that on &#8220;multiple separate occasions,&#8221; U.S. government officials demanded that the journalists participate in a &#8220;secondary screening&#8221; at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom to Write\u2013A Root of Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,45,58,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-history","category-stamps","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}