President's Blog: Trinity Federal Judge Holds Post Reporter in Contempt

U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Mayers Collyer, Trinity Class of 1968, is at the center of the latest controversy involving reporters and sources. On Wednesday, November 16, Judge Collyer held Washington Post Reporter Walter Pincus in contempt of court for refusing to reveal his confidential sources in a civil suit brought by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear weapons scientist who is suing the federal government over an investigation of his activities at nuclear lab in Los Alamos.

Judge Collyer received Trinity's Centennial Leadership Award at the Cap and Gown Convocation in Fall 2003. You can read more about her in the Fall 2003 Trinity Magazine posted on Trinity's website at http://www.trinitydc.edu/news_events/mags/fall03/judges.htm