https://reason.com/2024/05/30/these-strange-bedfellows-want-scotus-to-remind-the-5th-circuit-that-journalism-is-not-a-crime/
"Sylvia Gonzalez, a former Castle Hills, #Texas, city council member, plausibly alleges that she was arrested on a trumped-up charge in retaliation for conduct protected by the #FirstAmendment. So does Priscilla Villarreal, an independent journalist in Laredo, Texas."

"It is hard to say how often people engage in the conduct that police cited to justify her arrest, which involved putting a petition in her personal folder during a city council meeting. Villarreal, by contrast, was arrested for asking questions, something that journalists across the country do every day."

"To justify those charges, police cited Section 39.06(c) of the Texas Penal Code, an obscure, rarely invoked law that applies to someone who "solicits or receives from a public servant" information that "has not been made public" with the "intent to obtain a benefit." The claim that Villarreal had violated that law was absurd for several reasons."

"Villarreal, who is represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, is asking the Supreme Court to uphold that principle, which her arrest blatantly violated."
#FreeSpeech