"The First Amendment means the government can't restrict Americans' access to ideas, information, or media from abroad without a very good reason for it-and no such reason exists here," Jaffer said in a printed statement.
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For good reason, the courts have generally refused to give the government access to this kind of sensitive information except in the most unusual circumstances,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
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