Feds in Portland Now Unrestrained in Removing Journalists at Protests
Source: Courthouse News
KARINA BROWN
(CN) — Federal agents will no longer be restrained from assaulting and arresting journalists when dispersing protesters in Portland, Oregon after the Ninth Circuit temporarily stayed a lower court order that the judges said lacked clarity in the visible identification it required journalists to wear.
In a split ruling, two judges on a three-judge panel issued a temporary stay on Thursday, finding that U.S. District Judge Michael Simon’s 61-page injunction was overly broad and lacked clarity.
The majority, both of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote that the federal government was facing “irreparable harm” from the ruling, and that it was likely correct when it argued that journalists can’t be exempt from orders to disperse that the general public must follow.
Judge Margaret McKeown dissented. The Bill Clinton appointee wrote that she would have kept Simon’s injunction in place. The government had asked the Ninth Circuit for an emergency stay, but McKeown found that the government hadn’t shown an emergency, given that a restraining order with virtually the same terms had been in place for over a month before Simon issued his injunction.
According to the website for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, three-judge panels for motions like the one filed by the government in this case are being heard this month by McKeown, Judge Barry Silverman, who was also appointed by Clinton, and Judge Daniel Bress, a Trump appointee. But in an unusual move, Judge Eric Miller, a Trump appointee, apparently subbed in for Silverman.
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What's that all about??? 
This Is a BFD, folks.
Thanks for the post, swag.