New York Times Company v. Department of Defense

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) THE NEW YORK TIMES ) COMPANY, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 25-04218 (PLF) ) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ____________________________________) OPINION A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription. Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is…