Reporters and photographers don’t have a First Amendment right to enter polling places during elections to report on the process, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer of the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a 58-page opinion dismissing a lawsuit by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette against Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele and the Allegheny County Board of Elections.

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