Obama Pushes for Media-Shield Law

Under fire for secret subpoenas of Associated Press phone records, the White House asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “to reintroduce the media shield law that he supported in 2009 but that never received a vote on the Senate floor,” NBC News reports.

“The push comes in the wake of Department of Justice subpoenas of a broad swath of AP’s phone records, including several main numbers used by more than 100 reporters.”