A former U.S. solicitor general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether an attorney has a First Amendment right to disseminate a sealed document obtained, unsolicited, by a whistleblower.
Paul Clement, who served under President George W. Bush, is supporting Frederick Oberlander’s bid for high court consideration of a series of gag orders barring him from disclosing information related to a government cooperator. Oberlander attached sealed records to a civil racketeering lawsuit, revealing that the defendant, Felix Sater, was the "John Doe" of a prior case.
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