The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether Wisconsin's governor violated the First Amendment when he barred a conservative think tank from attending news conferences in a case that raised questions about media freedom and the type of organizations that should be considered news outlets.
The Madison-based John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, a self-described think tank that "promotes limited government" sued Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers in 2019 after the Democrat declined to invite its writers to attend a briefing about the state budget. Evers' office asserted that MacIver is "not principally a news organization."
