Donald Trump's personal attorney has filed several lawsuits seeking information about the identities of reporters' anonymous sources:
, citing the First Amendment's reporters' privilege and shield laws in California, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Harder has not yet filed a response, and Fortson and The Sunday Times declined to comment.
"Representing people in cases that, overall, are bad for society or bad for the First Amendment landscape as a whole, isn't unethical as a legal matter," said Katie Townsend, the legal director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press."Do I agree with what Charles Harder does? No. Would I want to do that kind of work? Absolutely not. But I can't say that he's doing anything, as a lawyer, that's improper.
"There are very real reasons that a journalist would want to keep their sources confidential," she told INSIDER."Sources help to make the news, and in some cases, without the information sources provide, important stories would never have become public." She allowed, however, that"a good attorney will try whatever they can to get information that will assist them in winning the case for their client.
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