And Stephen J. Adler, chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said, “When the public’s right to know is crushed, as the Trump Administration is trying to do with its subpoenas against The New York Times, all of us suffer irreparable harm, as does the freedom upon which this nation is built.”
Democrats in the Senate, too, took aim at the subpoenas. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) panned them as “another slap in the face of the First Amendment from this administration and an attempt to silence journalists they don’t like” in a social media post.