In a stunning rebuke, a New York court slammed the New York Times in a Friday ruling, blasting it for its tactics and for having improperly obtained and published legal documents belonging to Project Veritas.

Notably, the court said:

Here, the court’s protective order does not act as an impermissible prior restraint on the Times. As important as the First Amendment’s protection against prior restraints is, on the present facts, the erosion of the attorney-client privilege is a far more imminent concern.

Continuing, it remarked that attorney-client privilege must remain strong for justice to be properly served, saying: Read more