TRO Issued Ordering Reinstatement of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico White House Access

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent The court's rationale is that revoking reporters' passes violated the Due Process Clause, given D.C. Circuit precedent on the subject; the court didn't reach the outlets' First Amendment arguments. From Judge Timothy Kelly's TRO today in CNN, Inc. v. Trump : On the afternoon of September 18, 2026, President Trump announced in a social media post that, "effective immediately," he was "banning" the news organizations CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO "from the White House." And those news organizations allege that over the weekend their reporters were denied access to the White House and had their "hard pass" press credentials deactivated. Plaintiffs—the three news organizations and three individual reporters—sue the President and several White House officials and move 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 well-known D.C. Circuit precedent that this Court must faithfully apply. For the reasons explained below, the Court will grant the Motion…. Plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success, at least on their Fifth Amendment procedural due process claim.

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