Posted on 09/24/2026 10:35:16 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
...Critics asked whether we are in a “Constitutional crisis” and others slammed the president for defying the court’s order while they wondered what will happen next in this increasingly tense standoff.
“The WH has generally avoided defying court orders but appears to have done just that this morning,” veteran journalist Brit Hume wrote on X in reaction to the White House committing to its media ban.
“When do we start calling this a Constitutional crisis?” media reporter Edmund Lee asked.
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Along with a few dozen X.com posts.
Backstory..
These ae co-equal branches of government.
The court is out of line.
Heads Explode
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News at Eleven!
Impeachment #3 now or after the midterm election?
These commies deserve much worse.
999 kangaroo courts have issued bogus rulings against Trump.
Trump has adhered to 998 of these bogus rulings.
This one seems like a bridge too far. It’s utterly fatuous, and Trump is ignoring it.
The Left has been waiting through 998 of these things, just itching to say it. They’ve been disappointed 998 times. But here it is! OMG! Constitutional Crisis! Trump is Hitler!
Just pathetic.
How could there be “No Due Process” when there is no law which defines how the White House Press pool is to be organized?
To quote ALGORE: “No Controlling Legal Authority”
I have come to the conclusion that Federal Courts are an end-run-around on Checks and Balances. The Congress creates and funds Federal Courts to curry favor of the Supreme Court, which is Constitutionally mandated. Then, the Executive is attacked in Federal courts, and Congress feigns innocence. The Supreme Court protects its increase in power.
If they want access to the White House, get on the tourist line like the rest of us reporters.
-PJ
MS NOW, CNN and Politico regain White House access after judge orders press passes restored
MS Now ^
Posted on 9/24/2026, 12:43:38 PM by USA-FRANCE
Under a federal judge’s order, the Trump administration restored White House access Thursday to journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico who had their press passes revoked after President Donald Trump criticized the outlets’ coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at ms.now ...
The branches are not, nor never were meant to be, co-equal, this is a myth. Also, given that the weaker branch, the Judicial, has no ability to enforce...the present situation regarding the “press” is working as the Founders intended. Unquestionably.
I kind of liked Hume when he slapped Juan Williams around back in the day, but like the rest of his legacy media comrades, he's gotten insufferable.
But go ahead, mediots, tell the public how important you are, how someone in a black robe can force an issue at the behest of the whiny entitled, while twisting the First Amendment. I can't think of a better way to endear yourselves further with the public.(that was sarcasm, in case you missed it)
Nothing is stopping any of you mediots from reporting 'the news', there aren't federal agents sitting in your newsrooms censoring what you put out, or writing your stories for you (although I suspect you willingly were collaborating during the Obama, Biden, and Clinton regimes. Hell, a number of you were literally in bed with government officials).
In the meantime, I've been able to watch uncurated footage of Xi's state visit to the White House.
In a nutshell, the Left-Media is freaking out over what Left-Presidents have been doing to anyone not Left-Media for generations.
Why? Because their monopoly is getting broken up in real time and they’re sad about it.
They are equal in status, not power. Over the years people have come to redefine what coequal means to transcribe power where it doesn’t belong. A presidential pardon can’t be checked by the other branches correct? A president can’t pass laws, that’s for Congress only.
There can be no checks and balances if everyone is equal.
Yes, exactly right.
Anyone who understands the architecture of "Watergate" will immediately recognize all the familiar features in the now eleven year long crusade to rid America of Candidate, then twice-President, Trump.
The difference, really the only difference between 1972-1974 and now is that there are no longer only three TV channels and two newspapers. It was the media domination by the anti-Nixon forces at the FBI and CIA that made it work (and I am speaking as one who, at the age of 22-24, had severe NDS).
There is no Constitutional issue here, not even a remote one, just as there was never such a thing as an "independent Justice Department" in 1973-74.
Notice how the "independence of the FBI/Attorney General/Justice Department" kept cropping up during the Mueller farce, and how last year they tried it again.
The President can be removed at any time by Congress. The process is complicated, it's difficult, which is one reason why it has never happened.
But that's the President's accountability to "democracy". That, and the two term limit.
Notice - the judicial branch cannot remove the President. They also cannot obstruct his functioning as the person in whom the Executive Power is vested, which power surely includes who gets to sit in at a press conference.
The only constitutional crisis is the rat media actively campaigning against the President at every turn.
Maybe Brit ought to worry about the S&M stuff on his computer screen and less about a constitutional crisis.
Which it is not!!!
“We’re all reporters, as the first amendment freedom of the press refers to the right of the people to publish, not the right of a select few to name themselves the “press” to claim rights unique to themselves only. If they want access to the White House, get on the tourist line like the rest of us reporters.
Yes, exactly right “
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Great take!
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