Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a self-professed lover of Senate gangs, announced the creation of a new group of similarly-minded lawmakers on Sunday who will work on legislation that would implement a set of guidelines for future investigations into leaks of classified information.
“I proposed along with [Sen.] Lindsey Graham [R-SC], we’ll be announcing that we have four Democrats, four Republicans, another Gang of Eight,” said Schumer on CBS’s Face the Nation, according to the Hill. “I love these gangs of eight I guess.”
Schumer said the bipartisan group will “introduce “legislation that sets up rules where… if the government wants to go to a member of the press and say you have to divulge your sources and certain information, they first have to go to a judge, and that judge will impose a balancing test [and say] ‘which is more important? The government desire to… find out who leaked the information or the robust freedom of the press.’
Schumer also renewed his push for so-called “media shield” legislation earlier this month, which would provide legal protections to journalists engaged in news gathering activities.