Court bars New York Times from publishing Project Veritas memos in move called 'unconstitutional'
A New York state judge ruled on Thursday that the New York Times must temporarily cease publication of articles based on internal documents from Project Veritas, which sued the newspaper for defamation last year — a decision that was sharply criticized as unconstitutional by both the leadership of the Times and press freedom advocates.
The New York Times building is Manhattan. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The New York Times building is Manhattan. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
The ruling, by Westchester County Supreme Court Judge Charles D. Wood, follows a Times story last week based on memos written by the group’s media lawyer that the Times said revealed “the extent to which the group has worked with its lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.”
On Monday, a lawyer representing Project Veritas suggested that the federal authorities leaked legal memos to the Times after obtaining them during a raid this month on the home of the group’s founder, James O’Keefe, as part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding diary pages purportedly belonging to President Biden’s daughter that were published shortly before the 2020 election.
Project Veritas — an organization that has used deceptive tactics in some of its attempts to capture proof of what it says is liberal bias and corruption in mainstream media and government — acknowledged that it once had possession of the diary, but it said it gave the diary to law enforcement and denied having anything to do with its publication by another right-wing site.
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