Erik Wemple, The Washington Post; Trump-appointed judge: Get CNN’s Jim Acosta back in the White House
"In a Friday morning court session, Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia lent his thinking to the
matter, which resulted in the granting of CNN’s request for the TRO —
meaning that Acosta’s press pass will be reinstated, though just
“temporarily,” according to a statement from Sanders. In his discussion
of the TRO request, Kelly considered the likelihood that CNN would
prevail in its arguments that the hard-pass revocation violated
due-process considerations. Likely, Kelly ruled. Wednesday’s oral
arguments and the judge’s explanation centered on the 1977 case Sherrill v. Knight, in which a “court
found that denial of White House credentials was a sufficiently grave
infringement on the freedom of the press that it couldn’t just be done
by fiat.” In his own summation, Kelly said that Sherrill
stands for the proposition that the “Fifth Amendment’s due process
clause protects a reporter’s First Amendment liberty interest in a White
House press pass.”"
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