Matthew Cooper of Time magazine says he is worried over the search for words to explain to his six-year-old son the necessity of “obeying the law” if and when he is sentenced for contempt of court.
The White House reporter stresses that he is not a lawyer, and does not speak for counsel hired by Time and The New York Times for the joint appeal. Nor will he speculate about the prosecutor's designs in pursuing a verdict against the two journalists left standing -- the other being Judith Miller of The New York Times.
However, in contrast to the conventional wisdom now surrounding the legal showdown, following the April 19 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denial of en banc review, he thinks there is a fair chance that the Supreme Court will agree to grant “cert” in what has now been labeled “In re: Grand Jury Subpoena.” With confusion in the lower courts over the scope of a reporter's privilege to protect information from confidential sources, he hopes the Supreme Court will decide this potential landmark case.
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