Constitutional Law
Oct. 26, 2006
Congress Should Adopt Immediately a Federal Shield Law for Journalists
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The outrage of putting two reporters in jail for 18 months for keeping their sources confidential should finally provoke Congress into adopting a law protecting reporters who keep their sources confidential.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Forum Column
By Erwin Chemerinsky
The outrage of putting two reporters in jail for 18 months for keeping their sources confidential should finally provoke Congress into adopting a law protecting reporters who keep their sources confidential. In September, a federal judge in San Francisco sentenced reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wade to jail for refusing to disclose who leaked...
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