This week, CNN, MS NOW and Politico challenged the Trump White House‘s latest effort to punish the press: restricting the outlets from access to areas like Air Force One and the Oval Office.
Already, a federal judge, Timothy Kelly, has ruled that the president’s wider ban on the three outlets, which barred access to the White House grounds, likely violated their due process and First Amendment rights. But the Trump administration has continued to prohibit CNN, MS NOW and Politico from such things as presidential travel or other pool assignments, the outlets say in the most recent legal filing.
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