Matt & Judy 101: Shafer advocates for the advocates

Jack Shafer lawyers along with the lawyers on the Matt & Judy case in today’s Press Box on Slate (“Slate?” “Slate.”), deftly one-upping Floyd Abrams on how the case differs from Branzburg, outlining the new argument in the brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme by counsel for Time‘s Matt Cooper, and arguing just as strenuously why it’s right on the money.

Cooper’s team (headed by former solicitor-general Theodore Olsen) argues that due process demands the defendants be granted access to the secret grand jury evidence (represented by those maddeningly redacted eight

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