An appellate judge said Texas appears to be trying to criminalize journalism during a Fifth Circuit hearing over a citizen journalist’s arrest for publishing the unreleased names of two people who died.
A man walks in front of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Jan. 7, 2015. (AP photo/Jonathan Bachman)
NEW ORLEANS (CN) A panel of Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments related to the First Amendment on Wednesday in the case of a popular citizen journalist in Texas who was arrested for putting the names of two deceased people on social media before they were made public by authorities.