The Washington Post headquarters. Specialists in legal ethics said that if the prosecutor who submitted the application knew about the law, the failure to bring it up violated a longstanding legal ethics rule.
The Justice Department did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.
The Justice Department did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.