{"id":55580,"date":"2023-08-12T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55580"},"modified":"2023-08-15T05:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:30:15","slug":"kansas-reflector-in-marion-county-newspaper-raid-a-grim-threat-to-kansans-first-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55580","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Reflector: In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans\u2019 First Amendment rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kansas Reflector: <a href=\"https:\/\/kansasreflector.com\/2023\/08\/12\/in-marion-county-newspaper-raid-a-grim-threat-to-kansans-first-amendment-rights\/\">In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans\u2019 First Amendment rights<\/a> by Clay Wirestone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The outrageous law enforcement assault on the Marion County Record newspaper raises a veritable forest of red flags.<\/p><p>Why would a judge sign off on an apparently illegal search? What type of officials would willingly execute such an abuse of power? Could any convoluted sequence of liquor permit infighting possibly justify such drastic measures? Are we still living in a state and nation where the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies?<\/p><p>We don\u2019t know definitive answers to any of these questions yet, and the story may well still surprise us. In the meantime, the Record itself and Kansas Reflector\u2019s story offer starting points.<\/p><p>This morning, though, I\u2019d like to write about a part of the story that we do know. We know that law enforcement officials raided the office of a news outlet and carted away computers and cellphones. On its own, with no other background or context, this sets an incredibly destructive precedent.<\/p><p>Not just in Marion.<\/p><p>\u201cNewsroom raids in this country receded into history 50 years ago,\u201d said John Galer, chair of the National Newspaper Association and publisher of the Journal-News of Hillsboro, Illinois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The NNA states the obvious:  Newspaper warrants almost ceased to exist after outrage from <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=4415481225642593103&amp;q=zurcher+v.+stanford+daily&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Zurcher v. Stanford Daily (1978)<\/a>.  See Treatise \u00a7\u00a7 27.02\u201327.06. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search warrants don&#8217;t justify inclusion here unless they are unusual.  The Mar-a-Lago warrant wasn&#8217;t unusual enough to me except for the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Updates:<\/strong> The newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/marion-county-record-co-owner-dies-after-raid\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/marion-county-record-co-owner-dies-after-raid\/\">reports<\/a> that the raid may have been retaliatory for investigating the police chief who organized it.  12KWCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2023\/08\/14\/attorney-marion-county-record-says-chief-personally-authorized-illegal-searches\/\">Attorney for Marion County Record says chief personally authorized \u2018illegal searches\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Reflector: In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans\u2019 First Amendment rights by Clay Wirestone:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privileges","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55602,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55580\/revisions\/55602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}