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The Supreme Court refused to stop a judge from fining an ex-Fox News reporter $800 per day for refusing to reveal confidential sources.
The Supreme Court refused to stop a lower court judge from fining an ex-Fox News reporter $800 per day for refusing to reveal confidential sources. The fine is accumulating daily, which means it's growing by thousands of dollars every week the reporter maintains their silence. By declining to halt the fine, the Supreme Court let the punishment stand.
This is functionally a shutdown of source protection at the Supreme Court level. The court had the power to stop the fine while the case proceeded; it chose not to. For journalists, this means there's no longer a reliable last-resort protection if a lower court judge decides to fine them into compliance. A reporter can accumulate hundreds of thousands in fines waiting for an appeal.
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