Biden's Justice Department says it will no longer seize reporters' records for leak investigations

“Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this Department of Justice — in a change to its longstanding practice — will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs,” Anthony Coley, the department’s director of public affairs, said in a statement.The commitment from President Joe Biden’s Justice Department comes just a day after The New York Times reported a top lawyer for the paper had revealed that