Attorney General Merrick Garland instituted a new policy restricting the Justice Department’s use of compulsory processes such as subpoenas to seize information from members of the media following revelations about Trump DOJ efforts to get to the bottom of leaks of classified information.

The memo authored by Garland put in place new policies to limit the government’s ability to obtain information, records, or documents from members of the media through the courts, directed Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to undertake a review to codify the new policy, and called on Congress to put together legislation to give these media protections the force of law.