BREAKING: Trump LOSES MEDIA BAN…
This is a breaking news alert. CNN, MSN. Now, and Politico just won a temporary. restraining order against the Trump. regime. The federal judge in Washington. DC, Judge Timothy Kelly, has ordered. that the reporters affected by Donald. Trump's ban on them be immediately. reinstated. They shall have their hard. passes immediately returned and they. will be allowed to go into the White.
House to once again report on the Trump. regime immediately. The temporary. restraining order is in effect for 14. days. Judge Timothy Kelly, who just made. this order, was a Trump appointed judge. Donald Trump previously posted that this. judge was a traitor because Trump said. that he appointed him and that this. judge betrayed him before. So Trump said. he expected to lose because of this. traitor drug judge or words to those.
effect as Donald Trump attacks judges. including the judges that he appointed. It didn't intimidate judge Timothy Kelly. late on Tuesday or Wednesday night. rather. Judge Timothy Kelly making this. order granting CNN, MS Now, and. Politico's temporary restraining order. against the Trump regime. Now, before. Judge Timothy Kelly made this order, the. Trump regime Department of Justice made. a late night court filing to try to.
defend the Trump White House media ban. And this is what they said. They said. that the MS Now article that came out. earlier today titled Trump AIDS explore. attaching president's name to Ford. Theater somehow supports the Justice. Department's argument that the media. group MS Now and Politico and CNN. exhibit behavior in violation of the. standards of professionalism and decorum.
and that they pose national security. risks. It was also reported earlier. today by status news hat to Natalie. Korak and she does great reporting over. there that uh purportedly the anonymous. senior administration official behind. one of the stories that the Trump regime. cited in their ban of Politico was none. other than Vice President JD Vance who. was working with Politico to trash the.
Trump regime. Well, how about them. apples right there? Let's take a look at. the federal judges order right now. This. is the order by Judge Timothy Kelly. Again, he is a uh Trumpappointed judge. I want to go through it diligently with. you so we can see what the ruling. ultimately was. Judge Kelly ruled as. follows. On the afternoon of September. 18th, 2026, Donald Trump announced in a. social media post that effective.
immediately he was banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico. And those news. organization alleged that over the. weekend their reporters were denied. access to the White House um and had. their hard pass credentials deactivated. plaintiffs. The three news organizations. and three individual reporters sued the. president and several White House. officials and moved for a temporary. restraining order, asking the court to. order the immediate reinstatement of. their hard passes pending further.
proceedings. The court's resolution of. their motion is dictated by the. application of the well-known DC circuit. precedent that this court must. faithfully apply for the reasons. explained below. The court will grant. the motion of MS Now, CNN, and Politico. to obtain a temporary restraining order. A plaintiff, in this case, those news. organizations, must show that they have. a likelihood to succeed on the merits, that they are likely to suffer.
irreparable harm in the absence of. preliminary relief, and that the balance. of equities tips in their favor, and. that an injunction is in the public. interest. Those are called the winter. factors. This is a high bar, but the. plaintiffs, CNN, MS Now, and Politico. have met that high bar here. First, the. plaintiffs, again, those news. organizations have shown a likelihood of. success at least on their fifth. amendment procedural due process claim.
The merits of this claim are assessed in. two steps. The first asks whether there. exists a liberty or property interest. which has been interfered with by the. state. The second examines whether the. procedures attendant upon that def that. deprivation were constitutionally. sufficient. Plaintiffs have shown that. they are likely to succeed in bold. steps. As for the first the DC circuit. held in the famous Cheryl v Knight case, the interest of a bonafide Washington.
correspondent in obtaining a White House. press pass undoubtedly qualifies as a. liberty interest which may not be denied. without due process of law under the. fifth amendment. And that was a 1977. precedent. You all may recall in my. prior analysis of the Trump regime's. filings, they were asking this federal. judge overturn the decision that was. reached in uh the Cheryl case that it.
was bad law that this is Trump's home. and if Trump wants to ban you for. national security reasons, he can just. say everything's national security and. you can't be in his home. That's the. deranged ranting and ravings of the. Trump regime filings. And remember the. Trump regime filings had all of those. Trump Truth social posts. It was like. post after post. Really deranged stuff. And if there were any doubt about what. Cheryl meant, the DC circuit more. recently reaffirmed its conclusion in.
Karum versus Trump, holding that a duly. issued hard pass may not be suspended. without due process. our friend Brian. Carum, who you've seen on the Midas. Touch network as well, a ton. Plaintiffs. are also likely to succeed in showing. that their hard passes were revoked. without constitutionally adequate due. process. The general rule is that. individuals must receive notice and an. opportunity to be heard before the. government deprivives them of a.
constitutionally protected interest. It. goes on to say the Kum case also holds. that because of the substantial interest. at stake before the government can. revoke the White Houseisssued hard pass. of a reporter and must promulgate rules. or standards governing the conduct that. would lead to such a revocation. And the. reporter must receive fair notice not. only of the conduct that would subject. him or her to punishment, but also of. the magnitude of the sanction that the. White House might impose. Defendants do.
not dispute. Defendants meaning Trump. regime do not dispute that plaintiffs. did not receive notice and an. opportunity to be heard before their. passes were revoked. And as in KAM, the. record is beerefted. It doesn't have any. relevant formally articulated standards. in place before any of the conduct for. which defendants revoke their hard past. One standard defendant appears to offer. refle reflected in letters they sent to.
plaintiff on September 22nd identifying. their objectionable reporting is so. vague it hardly does the trick. Quote, "Your organization has exhibited a. violation of standards of. professionalism and decorum expected of. those given to access the White House. complex. Moreover, defendants renewed. plaintiff Betsy Klein's hard pass. several months after she published some. of the identified reporting undercutting.
any argument that she or her employer, for example, had the requisite notice. that the conduct at issue violated a. relevant standard. In other words, Trump, you renewed the pass of plaintiff. Betsy Klene several months after she. published the story you claim you don't. like. So, it seems that you're just. lying and making this up. Finally, nothing put plaintiff on notice of the. magnitude of the sanctioned defendants. imposed. None of the defendants. arguments, meaning Trump's arguments, convince this court, again, a Trump.
appointed judge, that plaintiffs are not. likely to succeed on their due process. claim. Defendants say that Cheryl and. Karum were wrongfully decided that the. presidential cases are wrong. Maybe, but. this court is bound by DC Circuit. President Full Stop. Defendants also. point to the letters referenced above. which they assert afford plaintiffs. post-deprivation notice of the. revocation an opportunity to be heard. and defendants site cases that suggest. that such a post-deprivation process.
suffices in extraordinary circumstances. These are such circumstances defendants. argue because plaintiffs have endangered. national security through their. reporting. But the circumstances here. are not so extraordinary as to permit. deviation from the essential principle. of due process that a deprivation of. liberty be preceded by notice and an. opportunity for a hearing. Then it goes. on to say nothing in the record suggests. the need for such urgency here. Indeed,
some of the reporting identified by. defendants in the letters to plaintiff. stretches back months or years. The. sorts of stories defendants identify in. the letters to plaintiffs are routine. And as discussed further below, the. court is skeptical, at least on this. record, that defendants interest in. safeguarding national security is the. actual motivation for or is even. advanced by the revocation of. plaintiff's hard passes. In other words, you are lying about national security.
and we are not buying it. This court. knows that you are a liar. Finally, even. if the circumstances here allowed for. post-deprivation process, defendants are. still left with the problem that before. the reporting at issue, plaintiffs still. did not receive fair notice at all. And. he goes on and it gives more of the. reasoning over here. And it says the. federal rules of civil procedure. provides that a court may issue a. preliminary injunction or a temporary.
restraining order only if movement gives. security an amount that the court. considers proper to pay the costs and. damages sustained by the party. The DC. circuit has observed the widely. recognized discretion of district courts. not only to set the amount but dispense. with any security requirement. whatsoever. So given the lack of. representation from defendants, they. will sustain any economic injury from an. injunction and the important rights. plaintiffs seek to vindicate, this court.
will impose a nominal bond of $1. For. all the reasons, it is hereby ordered. that plaintiff's motion for a temporary. restraining order is granted. It is. further ordered that defendants except. for President Trump and their agents. representatives and all persons or. entities acting in concert with them. shall immediately return, reinstate and. restore the White House hard pass. credentials held by employees of CNN, MS. Now and Politico that were revoked on or. about September 18th until further order.
of the court or the expiration of this. temporary restraining order. It is. further ordered that this temporary. restraining order shall remain in effect. for 14 days. It is further ordered that. the plaintiff shall post a $1 bond in. accordance with the federal rule of. civil procedure 65 C signed. Timothy. Kelly. There you have it. And I'll just. go this national security point one more. time. For another and simply for another. and simply put, the record lacks factual. support for defendants's contention that.
the revocation of plaintiff's hard. passes will in fact protect national. security or the national security will. be endangered if this court orders their. passes reinstated while the litigation. proceeds. Defendants offer no. declarations or other support, classified or unclassified, explaining. how any of the reporting they identified. in their letters to plaintiffs damaged. national security. The declarations they. do provide include general background.
about classified information, but the. declarance are senior officials in the. Department of Defense who have no direct. knowledge of how reporters operate in. the White House or about any facts at. issue here. And supplemental. declarations filed by plaintiffs show. that in most cases, the reporters who. author the stories defendants identify. in their letters did not even hold hard. passes. In the remaining cases, defendants afford no reason to believe. that the reporter's possession of the.
hard pass was integral to the stories. that were ever even identified. There. you have it. Big news. Oh, by the way, did you get. your copy of WTF America, the book I. wrote with my brothers? Pre-order it. now. It comes out October 20th. Get your. copy right now. Let's keep the pre-order. momentum going. Thanks for watching. Hit. subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. subscribers. Breaking news right now. My. brothers and I wrote a book. It's called. WTF America. And well, doesn't that just.
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