Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
Michael Patrick Leahy walked out of a Nashville courthouse Monday morning celebrating his freedom — at least for now.
“I am a free man and can continue to exercise my First Amendment rights,” the CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star declared on his X account.
My statement after the Nashville court hearing today. For now, I am a free man and can continue to exercise my First Amendment rights. https://t.co/e7VC27JyzO — MichaelPatrick Leahy (@michaelpleahy) June 17, 2024
Tennessee Chancery Court Judge l’Ashea Myles had ordered Leahy to court after his Star News Network had reported on portions of the so-called “manifesto” of Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the transgender-identified shooter who murdered six people at a Nashville Christian school. The Star reported that it had obtained images of roughly 80 pages of the killer’s journal that police found in her vehicle. The journal entries cover the weeks before she stormed into Covenant …
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