The press
A judge kept CNN, Politico and MS NOW in the White House.
Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, extended an order covering 78 reporters. He called the ban unlawful viewpoint discrimination. The case sits three weeks before the midterms.
The Rocket News · Washington Bureau · WashingtonOctober 14, 2026 · 3 min read
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order keeping reporters for CNN, MS NOW and Politico inside the White House, the Associated Press and Reuters reported. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated, wrote that the outlets are likely to win their free-speech and due-process claims. The bans covered 78 reporters. Trump announced them in a Sept. 18 social-media post, with no notice, and called the coverage “fake news.”
Kelly wrote that Trump’s own remarks showed the ban was about reporting he considered biased, not about the national-security reasons government lawyers later offered in court. “Simply put, that is unlawful viewpoint discrimination,” the judge wrote. He added that no one should read the decision as saying the president’s complaints are meritless. The injunction holds while the case is pending, three weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.
Simply put, that is unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
The photograph is the White House briefing room, cameras in the aisle, reporters in the seats. It is the room, not the judge’s signature, and not Tuesday’s hearing. The Politics desk files the passes. The House map is the front.
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