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Posted on 09/23/2026 6:59:32 PM PDT by thegagline
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., questioned Wednesday whether the Trump administration provided due process when it barred three major media outlets from access to the White House.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said the administration's process did not appear to comply with two earlier D.C. Circuit rulings, Sherrill v. Knight and Karem v. Trump, requiring due process before reporters' hard passes can be revoked, the Washington Examiner reported.
"The government said those cases were wrongly decided," Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, said at the hearing. "Maybe they were wrongly decided, maybe they weren't. But as a district court judge, I have to apply them.
I think it is fair to say the process the circuit laid out in those two cases wasn't followed here."
Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS Now and Politico were barred from the White House "effective immediately," accusing the outlets of reporting "FICTION and LIES." Reporters for all three organizations were denied entry to the White House grounds Saturday after their credentials were deactivated.
CNN, MS Now and Politico sued the Trump administration Monday, arguing that their exclusion based on the content of their reporting violates the First Amendment. The lawsuit also alleges that the administration violated their Fifth Amendment due process rights by revoking their White House access without notice or an opportunity to respond.
The Department of Justice defended the decision Tuesday in a court filing, arguing that White House access is a privilege rather than a right. The DOJ said the president can exclude outlets that he determines failed to meet standards of professionalism and decorum, including by publishing sensitive or classified information.
The administration said it gave the outlets an opportunity to respond in letters sent Tuesday that identified the reporting incidents it considered problematic, according to the Examiner.
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Ever since Mitch McConnell made timmy kelly a federal godlette, timmy’s been off the reservation.
Got in a snit because Trump made him lighten up on the J6ers and smooched jimmy acosta’s and XiNN’s treasonous butts.
timmy is a real POS.
đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Łđ. Well okay your judginess.
“No need for political statements masquerading as questions.”
That’s Kaitlan “The Unibrow” Collins’ specialty...
Both procedural and substantive due process apply to civil cases as well as criminal cases.
Technically, the government didnât deny reporters passes, they denjed the media organizations passes. But I agree with you, he needs to just ignore them. He seeks out confrontation with them all the time, ultimately undermining his own efforts to do things like banning them.
Judges can go and pound sand on things that don’t involve law. They have no right to be in the WH. No rights were violated. This is purely a matter of WH POLICY - and they broke it. Be gone!
This is definitely a line where you just shrug and say, “said what?”....and do nothing.
There is nothing in the Constitution that requires CNN, Politico and MSwhatever to be allowed into the Whitehouse.
Here is the constitutional basis that has been adopted by the courts thus far[ this post is not me endorsing these decisions]
âWe began by emphasizing that Sherrillâs claim â[wa]s not premised upon the assertion that the White House must open its doors to the press, conduct press conferences, or operate press facilities.â Id. at 129. But given that âthe White House has voluntarily decided to establish press facilities for correspondents who need to report therefromâ and given that â[t]hese press facilities are perceived as being open to all bona fide Washington-based journalists,â we held that âthe protection afforded newsgathering under the first amendment . . . requires that this access not be denied arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons.â Id. at 129 (internal citations omitted). Moreover, âthe interest of a bona fide Washington correspondent in obtaining a White House press passâ is not only âprotected by the first amendmentâ but also âundoubtedly qualifies as [a] liberty [interest] which may not be denied without due process of law under the fifth amendment.â Id. at 130â131.
Karem v Donald Trump, US Court of Appeals, DC Cir (2020) relying upon Sherrill v. Knight, 569 F.2d 124(D.C. Cir. 1977) [please disregard the informal citations as I am exhausted and am not billing for this ;-) ]
Issue lots and lots of credentials. So many that all can’t be accommodated. So many that each credential is good for 1 day in the year. If it so happens that the bogus media day just happens to be a day where there’s no press conference, that’s the breaks.
The J6ers were imprisoned while being investigated. Maybe this judge should be imprisoned and investigated?
“There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the president or his administration to call on and answer questions from anyone in the media.”
Until an Obama or Biden appointed judge says otherwise.
“There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the president or his administration to call on and answer questions from anyone in the media.”
Until an Obama or Biden appointed judge says otherwise.
“There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the president or his administration to call on and answer questions from anyone in the media.”
Until an Obama or Biden appointed judge says otherwise.
A âTrump judgeâ in the real world where only nominees acceptable to the home state senators are in the judge pool. MD and VA populate the DC circuit, so the Senate blue slips come out hard against every non-extremist candidate.
How about the reporters get the passes back but the White House relegates them to a closet or dig up a 6x6 area where the pool was and relegate them there. No one said they have to be at the press conferences
This all seems to apply to legitimate journalists. None of the clowns being barred have the right to call themselves that. They are leeches, paid parasitesâŚ. Propagandists who rarely report facts , who almost never cover ânewsâ. They lie at the behest of their masters- the democratic party. How hard would it be to produce a five minute video showing the obvious bias and dishonestly? Not hard. Ignore this judge.
Meanwhile, looks to me like CA has its own media ban...
https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2102838028721176658
Paging the WH.
You canât have government services that discriminate. Since people in the media can lie, itâs free speech, if you have a White House press briefing, you canât discriminate those making up news and propaganda. Yes, surely Obama did this, but since he was an authoritarian and liberal, the judges didnât do anything. Or, just quit making press briefings and release all of the important news to conservative sources on private property. Then all the rest of the press corps gets second hand news.
The judges can't order the admin to talk to them.
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