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Michael Patrick Leahy of The Star News Network joined the show today to break major news surrounding Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale.

According to The Star:

On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy released 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal, which was handwritten by Hale between January and March of 2023, can be downloaded here.

The journal was legally obtained by The Star from a source familiar with the investigation in June 2024. It was recovered from Hale’s vehicle by officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), along with a spiral notebook, after her March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School, where she murdered three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members before she was killed by MNPD officers.

Between June 5 and September 3, The Star published approximately 50 articles that are based on The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal but do not contain the actual pages from that journal. Tuesday’s publication of The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal provides further evidence supporting those 50 articles, but also reveals new information, including the octagonal symbol Hale drew when writing about her planned attack on the Covenant School or her gender identity.

“Judge Miles also said in the ruling that the families of the victims owned the copyright over the materials. This is why this is scary,” Crowder said. “There are different sets of victims. Those victims are still people and those people have families who do have ideological motivations, that's why you can have a mass shooting that takes place and you can have families of people who were shot still say we need to ban AR-15s.”

On June 10, prior to announcing her ruling, Judge Myles ordered Leahy to appear in court on June 17 and explain why articles about the contents of Hale’s journal, which were published by The Star between June 5 and June 10 should not subject him to contempt of court charges. At that June 17 hearing, Myles ultimately reversed course, instead holding a “landscaping” hearing about the status of the case, and ignoring the original purpose of the hearing.

“For the judge to say that evidence of a mass shooting, which captured the public's attention can be copyrighted, is to say effectively that any evidence involved in any crime that individuals don't want you to see in power can then be put under copyright and journalism is dead,” Crowder added.

According to the outlet, the families have not registered a copyright claim.

"A state judge has nothing to say about copyright law, that is a federal issue," Leahy added.

The Star has appealed the judge's ruling and expects to win the case.

"This was a troubled person who had been under physiatric care for 22 years. The system failed her, and because it failed her, it failed the victims of her crimes," Leahy said.

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