Last year, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced his support of the PRESS Act in the Sun-Times. Durbin wrote that “at a time when the former president is calling for journalists to be jailed and referring to the press as the ‘enemy of the people,’ it’s critical that we protect this pillar of our democracy.”
The PRESS Act is the strongest federal shield bill for journalists we’ve ever seen. It protects journalists — regardless of their political leanings or establishment credentials — from being surveilled by the government or forced to burn their sources, except in serious emergencies.
