Editor’s Note: The following is an update to our feature story about citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, originally published in the January/February 2024 issue of our magazine.
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In a blow to First Amendment advocates, a majority of the judges on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday not just to throw out a lawsuit by the Laredo citizen journalist and provocateur Priscilla Villarreal, who goes by the name La Gordiloca, but to endorse an expansive view of government power that permits police to arrest reporters for seeking basic information through backchannels.
