Is an Australian national working overseas protected by the First Amendment?
Julian Assange can file an appeal by Friday to fight his extradition to the United States, according to a new ruling from a British court on Monday. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, comes as Assange sits in a London prison over computer hacking and espionage charges first brought by the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump .
But the Department of Justice may not even care whether the First Amendment applies in this case, given the details under which the federal agency is charging Assange. He faces 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act as well as criminal hacking over his alleged involvement in providing instructions to Chelsea Manning on how to access classified computers to gain the material that was ultimately published by WikiLeaks under the name “Collateral Murder.” Those documents included a video of U.S.
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