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Q: Ahead of a potential First Amendment showdown Wednesday in the cityâs most closely watched murder case   a lawyer for independent journalist Jamie Kalven  says an attempt to force  his  testimony amounts to little more than an âunjustified fishing expeditionâ by indicted Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dykeâs attorneys.
Van Dykeâs attorneys have alleged that  Kalven  â the first journalist to detail the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald â received leaked documents containing legally protected information.
âGiven the fatal lack of evidence to support Defendantâs lynchpin factual claim  one is left to wonder the perceived point of (his) efforts â Matthew Topic   Kalven âs attorney  wrote in a document filed Tuesday.
 Kalven  is expected to be in court for the 9 a.m. Wednesday hearing  but it is unclear if he will be called to the the stand. He has vowed not to disclose sources.
None of the filings on this issue by Van Dykeâs legal team have been made public. But at a court hearing in October  the officerâs lead attorney  Daniel Herbert   alleged that  Kalven  obtained leaked documents containing information protected by long-standing legal precedent from being used against Van Dyke in a criminal case.
Herbert suggested that  Kalven  used that information to interview witnesses â with the assistance of the FBI â in a way that shaped the witnessesâ statements to authorities.
In court filings   Kalven âs attorney called Herbertâs efforts âscattershot  unsupported and irrelevant.â The only reports about the case in  Kalven âs possession were obtained from the city through Freedom of Information Act requests more than a year after the shooting  according to Topic.
In addition  as a journalist   Kalven  cannot be forced to disclose  his  sources except in certain specific circumstances   his  attorney stated.

A: Journalist could be called to stand at hearing on the Laquan McDonald shooting
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Q: The answer to that seemingly unimportant question is suddenly a key element of the deepening scandal surrounding the campaignâs contacts with Russia  following revelations that one member of the team  George Papadopoulos  communicated with Russians connected to the Kremlin. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said several times that the answer is one  implying that the foreign policy council was an unimportant body and  Papadopoulos  was a minor player in the campaign.
 Papadopoulos  admitted to special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigative team that  he  had ongoing contacts with Kremlin intermediaries during the campaign. The White House quickly downplayed the significance of the revelation last week  claiming that  Papadopoulos  was barely involved with the campaign. The campaign was certainly aware of  his  connections to Russia because  Papadopoulos  suggested using them to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a March 2016 meeting of the foreign policy team with Trump present. But  Sanders  has emphasized that that was itâthat the campaignâs foreign policy team  a group of volunteer advisers headed by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions  met only that one time.
âIâm telling you that  he  was a volunteer member of an advisory council that literally met one time â  Sanders  said during a press briefing on October 30.
But on Thursday  Page told the House Intelligence Committee that  he  spoke to Sessions at a dinner in Washington  DC  in June 2016 about an upcoming trip  he  was making to Russia. According to CNN  the dinner was a gathering of members of the foreign policy council. âA source familiar with the meeting told CNN that the encounter occurred at a dinner at the Capitol Hill Club  attended by members of the Trump national security team  including Sessions â the network reported. âNear the end of the dinner  Page approached Sessions to say hello and thanked the then-senator for the dinner  and Page also mentioned  he  was headed to Russia. Sessions didnât respond and moved on to the next person waiting to shake  his  hand  this source said.â

A: Hereâs the Problem With the White Houseâs Story on the Papadopoulos Scandal â Mother Jones
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Q: In the latest twist in the sexual harassment controversies roiling Congress  Republicans have taken to defending  Democratic Sen. Al Franken .
Yes  thatâs right. While  Franken  announced Thursday  he  would resign in the âcoming weeksâ amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct  some Republicans are not so sure  he  should have to leave the Senate.
âWhat you saw today was a lynch mob â former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday on Laura Ingrahamâs Fox News show after at least 35 Democratic Senators called on  Franken  to step aside. âLetâs not have due process. Letâs not ask anybody any questions. Letâs not have any chance to have a hearing. Letâs just lynch him  because when we get done lynching him  weâll be so pure.â
Eight women have accused  Franken  of sexually harassing them  with the most recent being a woman who told Politico this week that  Franken  tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006.
But Gingrich is not alone in claiming the Democrats are not acting entirely out of sincere moral concern. When interviewing Gingrich on Wednesday  Ingraham also said she believes the Democrats are using  Franken âs situation to claim the moral high ground so they can try to take down Republicans accused of sexual misconduct like President Donald Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
They have used a variety of tactics to dismiss the claims against him  but many of them come down to Republicans saying they do not have proof he did anything wrong. That seems to be the argument GOPers are using again to defend  Franken .
And the Washington Examinerâs Byron York also raised concerns about  Franken  not receiving due process.

A:
Some Republicans Are Defending Al Franken
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