A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqsqfnxau480pnvm0t258kdrj5u2u72zwm2kh7tk3qf6lxtqkwvlmq5j9nj5 for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at FPF since our founding in 2012).
Can't wait to hear Kansas prison officials explain how newspaper subscriptions threaten incarcerated people's safety.
Great news that the absurd RICO charges against Cop City protesters got thrown out.
Prosecutors called everything from talking to reporters to recording cops to using encryption part of a conspiracy.
We wrote about the threat to press freedom in 2023.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/11/cop-city-indictments-protest-press-freedom/
Legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, who represented The New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case, is alarmed by Paramount's decision to settle with Trump.
It's an "ominous blow to press freedom in our nation," he told us.
https://freedom.press/issues/legendary-first-amendment-lawyers-slam-paramount-trump-settlement/
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Reporter Livia Albeck-Ripka of The New York Times was struck by a crowd-control munition while covering an immigration enforcement protest in downtown LA on June 8:
The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/press-freedom-us-trump
Think about it: DOGE has existed for less than two months and says it's created enough records that it would take three years to release them in response to Citizens for Ethics' FOIA lawsuit.
This is a staggering level of stalling from a group of tech geniuses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/musk-doge-foia-lawsuit.html