In a ruling issued shortly after midnight, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly for the District of Columbia granted a 14-day temporary restraining order to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which had press credentials of their journalists covering the White House revoked on Saturday.

Yet the news outlets said some of their journalists were denied entry to the White House early Thursday morning. They have asked the court for an immediate hearing.

“A Secret Service agent confiscated the hard pass of journalists from all three organizations,” the request submitted to the court said. “And when Plaintiff [CNN Reporter] Betsy Klein, whose hard pass was confiscated on Saturday, September 19, requested to have her hard pass returned, her request was denied and she was refused access to the White House complex.”

  • Peffse@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m just going to hazard a guess that they didn’t create an entire streaming network in two days, and they’ve been planning the press lock out for a while.

    That would have required planning and subterfuge.

    More likely: feelings got hurt, and a rich donor had a failed streaming platform that needed a rescue.