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California Democrat AG Threatens Legal Action Against Journalists Who Obtained Information Through Public Records Request

Ashe Schow

With all the complaints that President Donald Trump is an enemy to the free press, some Democrats sure seem prepared to stifle that same free press with hardly any backlash.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, threatened legal action against journalists who had obtained information about police officers convicted of crimes through a public records request. Becerra argued that the information was provided to those journalists by mistake and should not be published.

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