Howard Blum

It's not a failsafe.

It's not a provision that protects the actions of journalists in pursuing information.

And that's what we have here.

And in fact, Mike mentioned the use of the FACE Act by the Biden administration, Biden Justice Department, Merrick Garland.

There were multiple conservative journalists prosecuted in connection with January 6th.

I represented one of them.

And they were there recording the events, video, audio recording.

They defended themselves on the basis that they were just observers of the events.

But, you know, in their background, in their history, they or even on that day, they made comments that the courts viewed.

They made comments that the courts viewed.

Correct.

Expressions of First Amendment opinion.

And the court viewed that sympathy with the protesters as setting them apart from other journalists.

And I represent one of them, Steve Baker, who now works for Glenn Beck and Blaze.

We made a motion to dismiss the case against him on the basis of selective prosecution.

We identified 60 credentialed and freelance journalists

who had not been prosecuted, whereas Steve was singled out and prosecuted.

And Judge Cooper in D.C.

focused on some of Steve's commentary during the event and after the event and said, well, you know, you really were, you know, your comments express an intention to sort of go along and be part of the protest.

Well, I got to tell you, I'm watching the video you're showing and a lot of that I had not seen before.