Fight escalates over planned impeachment press restrictions
By Nathaniel Weixel - 01/15/20 06:48 PM EST
The fight over potentially major restrictions on press access to the upcoming Senate impeachment trial escalated Wednesday as a second group of reporters formally asked Senate leaders to intervene.
“Speculative security worries must not override the ability of journalists to perform their jobs on Capitol Hill,†the Executive Committee of Periodical Correspondents wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
The committee is a group of reporters who represent and advocate for credentialed media in the Senate periodical press gallery.
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