A panel of appellate court judges in Washington, D.C., appeared skeptical on Monday of a longtime journalist’s argument that she should not be held in contempt of court for refusing to disclose her sources.

Ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge is subject to fines and possible jail time as a federal appeals court "appears unlikely to rescue" the conservative journalist for "refusing" to reveal her sources for reports about about a Chinese American scientist who was probed by the FBI,