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POLITICO: rCLThis morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the
principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,rCY the news organizations said. rCLWithout notice or process, the White House revoked our journalistsrCO credentials because it objected to
our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the publicrCOs right to independent journalism free from government interference.rCY

TrumprCOs post Friday was vague about the reasons for the ban, beyond complaining about rCLconstant rCyreportingrCOrCY of what he called rCLFICTION and
LIES.rCY Questioned about the move during an Oval Office photo op, Trump offered few specifics.

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Why not tell us exactly what the lies and fiction are. He wonrCOt because
the real reason is thin skinned mushroom.

He has further plans to cutoff reporters from the his appearance at
United Nations General Assembly this week. The reason, in the Assembly
he will become the laughing stock, then later he will concoct a story
about how they had tears in their eyes and called him the greatest.

Now on matters of national security, the Chinese implant at the WH that
ugly nasty Chnk Cheung should be deported very quickly, his aim is to
turn our reporters into rCychop suey, chow meinrCO. He keeps interfering
with our freedom of information.



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independent journalism free from government interference.=E2=80=9D

Sherrill v. Knight, the 1977 ruling journalists cite as protection against=
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Trump banning outlets like CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House,=
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is far weaker than people think. While the ruling clearly bars=20
content-based exclusion of press, every administration since 1977 has=20 quietly ignored it: Ari Fleischer admitted rigging the briefing room=20
seating grid under Bush, Sarah McClendon lost her six-decade press pass in=
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2001, Obama's press office froze out unfavorable reporters while favoring=
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the Times, and Dana Milbank lost his Post credential in 2019 despite=20 colleagues keeping theirs. None of these cases were ever litigated, so the=
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norm of selective access became normalized rather than legally tested. The=
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comparison is to Roe v. Wade's fall: not overturned because the reasoning=
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changed, but because decades of erosion made the exception feel routine=20 before courts finally confronted it. Sherrill sits in the same vulnerable=
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spot, technically strong on paper but resting on forty-eight years of=20 unchallenged practice that's quietly taught courts to treat press=20
favoritism as background noise rather than a constitutional violation,=20
right as CNN, MS NOW, and Politico now bring the fight to court. --8323329-205820503-1790013976=:446672--
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