ACLU, Reporters, Condemn Senate Republican Move to Restrict Press Access
Defending the First Amendment, again
For years, reporters were allowed to roam the hallways of the Capitol in hopes of recording an impromptu interview with a senator, an admirable feature of a healthy democracy whose legislators do not fear a free, and free-roaming, press.
A new rule that The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports was introduced solely by Senate Rules Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, a Republican, would have upended that tradition in favor of an extremely restrictive policy, as Bolton explains:
Television reporters will need permission from senators, the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Sergeant at Arms or the Senate Radio and TV Gallery, depending on location, before conducting an on-camera interview with a senator anywhere in the Capitol or in the Senate office buildings, according to a Senate official familiar with the matter.
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