Who got the tax documents to the NYT? Did they violate any laws?
Almost certainly.
But there is a long-established principle that it is not a crime for journalists to report information that was gathered illegally and handed to them in matters of public interest, not least because it is vital to be able to expose wrongdoing and hold power to account.
Then Frie and Barnes should get their money back from whatever fucking college they allegedly graduated from.
Frieheit is a
Canadian lawyer, so whilst that makes him better informed than you and me, he's still out of his jurisdiction when he wants to analyse American law.
My reading of Frieheit is that he is either personally right-libertarian or conspiracy theorist, or he's realised that those people are his core audience and is telling them what thay want to hear.
One way or another, all these YouTube lawyers are just different flavours of entertainment more than they are analysis.
Tell me something: if the someone steals a dick pic of Trumps, can the Times publish it?
That depends. If Trump's penis becomes a matter of sufficiently legitimate public interest, yes. And let's bear in mind it did, because - as an example of how quickly this administration collapsed into the gutter - Stormy Daniels claimed an affair and that his penis was sort of like a mushroom. And this wasn't just cheating on his wife (because as we know, Trump cheats everyone) but an aspect of improper payments for hush money, and that the president was attempting to officially lie about it to the public from the presidential podium, which is perhaps a more serious issue of public trust. Thus evidence that Daniels was not lying has some significance. Having said that, I doubt the NYT would publish pics even so, because it's unnecessarily crude and petty. They would more likely just report in text that they had seen them.
Otherwise, generally, publishing pictures of dick pics would not be reasonable as it bears no relevance to public interest.
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