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High Court Refuses Journalist’s Request for Protection Relating to a Source

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The Supreme Court denied journalist James Risen’s request to quash a federal government subpoena demanding that he identify a source he used in his 2006 book, State of War. So reports The New York Times.

The court’s one-line order did not explain its reasoning, but was presumably based on the 1972 ruling Branzburg v. Hayes, in which the high court held that journalists don’t have any protections against grand jury subpoenas. What happens now is unclear; the government can choose not to pursue Risen’s testimony, or it can seek to hold him in contempt.

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