Federal judge blocks DOJ from searching journalist's devices
February 26, 2026
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as posted by the channelA federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from an unsupervised, wholesale search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's electronic devices.
In his ruling Wednesday, Magistrate Judge William Porter said that allowing officials to do so would be a restraint on her First Amendment rights and called it "the equivalent of leaving the government's fox in charge of the Washington Post's henhouse."
Federal agents seized several devices from Natanson's Virginia home in January, which her paper called "outrageous." The judge says he will review the contents of Natanson's devices himself.
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