{"id":2269434,"date":"2024-06-17T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-star-editor-heads-to-court-to-defend-1st-amendment-rights-in-covenant-school-shootings-case\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:12:04","slug":"tennessee-star-editor-heads-to-court-to-defend-1st-amendment-rights-in-covenant-school-shootings-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-star-editor-heads-to-court-to-defend-1st-amendment-rights-in-covenant-school-shootings-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Star editor goes to court over 1st Amendment rights in Covenant School shootings lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennessee-star-editor-heads-to-court-to-defend-1st-amendment-rights-in-covenant-school-shootings-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2269434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Star, Michael Patrick\u200d Leahy, \u200dhas been summoned by Tennessee Chancery Court Judge l&#8217;Ashea Myles to attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">court<\/a> session relating \u200dto the coverage of the Nashville Covenant School\u200d mass shooting. The Tennessee Star published details from the\u200b shooter&#8217;s\u200d journals, identified\u2063 by\u200b the Metro Nashville Police\u200b as including a manifesto, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-house-committee-chairman-blasts-biden-for-dragging-feet-on-defense-budget\/\" title=\"Dem House Committee Chairman Blasts Biden For \u2018Dragging Feet\u2019 on Defense Budget\">law enforcement&#8217;<\/a>s\u200c opposition to releasing the journal contents publicly. This legal action underscores the tensions between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-report-shows-almost-1-in-3-women-experienced-violence-even-before-pandemic\/\" title=\"WHO Report Shows Almost 1 in 3 Women Experienced Violence Even Before Pandemic\">public knowledge<\/a> and privacy\/security concerns in\u2064 the \u200daftermath of violent incidents.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Star has been ordered to appear Monday before the judge overseeing the Nashville Covenant School mass shooting case after the Star published a series of stories detailing writings from the shooter\u2019s journals.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement has resisted the Star\u2019s efforts through a lawsuit to release the journal publicly, including those writings identified by Metro Nashville Police as a manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Chancery Court Judge l\u2019Ashea Myles ordered Michael Patrick Leahy, who also serves as CEO of Star News Digital Media, publisher of The Tennessee Star and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-brian-stelter-oliver-darcy-say-legacy-media-outlets-like-the-washington-post-have-layers-of-protection-against-bogus-stories\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, Oliver Darcy Say Legacy Media Outlets, Like The Washington Post, Have \u2018Layers Of Protection\u2019 Against \u2018Bogus\u2019 Stories\">news sites<\/a> across the U.S., to appear for a show cause hearing Monday to determine whether The Star violated any court orders related to publishing news stories on the shooter\u2019s writings.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a biological female who identified as a male, shot and killed three children and three school staff in March 2023, prior to being shot and killed by responding police officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I intend to appear in court on Monday at 11 am, along with my attorneys, Nick Barry with America First Legal and Daniel Horwitz, a nationally recognized First Amendment attorney based here in Nashville,\u201d Leahy told The Center Square Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy says he faces contempt charges and possible jail time for publishing a series of stories detailing Hale\u2019s writings after exclusively obtaining about 80 pages of the documents from a source. Leahy and The Tennessee Star have pursued public release of the documents to, at this point, no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Among other details on the writings, The Star reported that Hale felt socially isolated and unable to live independently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this densely written, undated entry spread over two pages, Hale wrote about mental health issues with her \u2018brain,\u2019 which she elsewhere connected to her purported autism diagnosis and decision to identify as a transgender man despite being a biological female,\u201d The Star reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark wrote on X, after Leahy was ordered to appear in court, that the news outlet had a First Amendment right to publish the stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what the free press is for,\u201d Clark wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s not designed to coddle the trans movement or keep secrets that could get people killed through ignorance. \u2026 (What\u2019s) going on in America? It\u2019s like a slice of the state judiciary across multiple States has lost its collective mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Star&#8217;s editor-in-chief must appear in court Monday regarding the Nashville Covenant School shooting case. This follows the Star&#8217;s publication of excerpts from the shooter&#8217;s journals, despite law enforcement&#8217;s legal attempts to block their release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":2269435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-1483489085-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-1483489085-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}