Veritas vs. truth: The New York Times must prevail in its legal battle against Project Veritas

Monday, the New York Times asked a state appellate court to stay the ruling of a Westchester judge who took the extraordinary step of barring the newspaper from publishing documents that shine light on activist-provocateur James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. The Times is on firm ground; the judge, Charles Wood, was way out of order in seeking to prevent a newspaper from exposing information that’s in the public interest and which was obtained through normal reporting methods. There are few absolutes in American constitutional law, but over generations of jurisprudence, it’s well established that ...