Utah journalist asks 10th Circuit to greenlight politics blog for legislature credentials

DENVER (CN) — A Utah political journalist asked on Tuesday to revive his lawsuit against the chiefs of staff for the Utah Senate and House of Representatives, who he says denied his application for press credentials after he launched his own publication and made jokes on social media at their expense.

“Speech restrictions based on the identity of the speaker are all too often a means of controlling content,” Charles Miller, an attorney for the Institute for Free Speech representing Utah journalist Bryan Schott, argued to the 10th Circuit panel.

For more than two decades, Schott worked as a political journalist and obtained legislative credentials as a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune.

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