Sonia Sotomayor fumes at Supreme Court colleagues as they knock back free speech case

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tore into her colleagues — and the lower courts — for failing to protect the rights of a citizen journalist who was arrested in Texas for reporting on information a government official willingly handed over.

According to Slate's Shirin Ali, "The case of Villarreal v. Alaniz has been ping-ponging through the courts since 2019, when it was first filed by Priscilla Villarreal. She is a citizen journalist based in Laredo, in south Texas, and is considered a muckraker...