CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acosta

Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/jud...orter-jim-acostas-white-house-press-pass.html

  • A federal judge on Friday grants CNN's request for a court order that would temporarily reinstate network correspondent Jim Acosta's White House press pass.
  • CNN's legal challenge comes in response to the Trump administration's decision last week to yank Acosta's "hard pass," which gave him access to the White House grounds, after Acosta clashed with the president at a news conference earlier that day.
  • CNN's lawsuit underscores Trump's increasingly hostile relationship with many mainstream media outlets, which he regularly decries as "fake news" and "the enemy of the people."


 
As I said before, Trump just needs to declare that there will be no more live press briefings until after the first of the year. And then resume after all correspondents have been in the penalty box due to Acosta. Any bad behavior after that and he announces that press briefings will be once per week rather than daily and "we will see how it goes from there." And so on. That also causes acosta's peers to not be cheering him on to misbehave and they start putting pressure on him to not grandstand because they are trying to make a living too.

Trump has plenty of long run recourses. As discussed, the court is just going to rule that due process notification and pre-publishing of rules are required before revocation. He can do all that and Acosta will not be able to meet those rules so putting an end to his hogging the floor is still do-able. But why bother? Trump has so much discretion to manage it already. Every other president gave interview favors to those who were good and everyone else just became persona non grata even if they were there.

Trump likes to rumble. That works against him here. Just reduce the number of live briefings and go back to work and let the white house correspondents figure out what their role is if the briefings start getting fewer and far between because the Acosta Show is not being held that week, day, month, year, whatever. Give em something to think about.

That would give Sarah Sanders a break too. They are using her as a human pinata which goes with the job- within reason- but it rises to the level of abuse with some of those clowns.
 
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Frederick Foresight said:
Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/jud...orter-jim-acostas-white-house-press-pass.html




    • A federal judge on Friday grants CNN's request for a court order that would temporarily reinstate network correspondent Jim Acosta's White House press pass.
    • CNN's legal challenge comes in response to the Trump administration's decision last week to yank Acosta's "hard pass," which gave him access to the White House grounds, after Acosta clashed with the president at a news conference earlier that day.
    • CNN's lawsuit underscores Trump's increasingly hostile relationship with many mainstream media outlets, which he regularly decries as "fake news" and "the enemy of the people."
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They should appeal all the way to the Supreme court! Grin.

Does a court even have juristiction on a matter like this? What rights have been violated? Even with the question of “rights being violated”, Is that concept even applicable to the location where the White House usually holds press conferences?
 
Do we need any further demonstration on why the left is so completely obsessed with who sits on the various courts? Legislating from the bench is their, shall we say, nuclear option. As already stated, the administration should just limit the frequency of press conferences, and employ the method used in the courts. A question is asked, an answer is given. If asked again the response is, asked and answered. Next question.
 
maximumpossiblesuffering said:
They should appeal all the way to the Supreme court! Grin.

Does a court even have juristiction on a matter like this? What rights have been violated? Even with the question of “rights being violated”, Is that concept even applicable to the location where the White House usually holds press conferences?
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This was not a 1st amendment issue, this was a 5th amendment issue. You guys need to put away the political bias and look at the legal issue.
 
El OchoCinco said:
This was not a 1st amendment issue, this was a 5th amendment issue. You guys need to put away the political bias and look at the legal issue.
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I think this is correct. But As TreeFrog suggested, the WH could easily draft rules requiring some level of decorum. There needs to be a higher bar than not being a physical threat to the President.
 
El OchoCinco said:
Again this is a legal issue. You should support it because you would not want a Dem president throwing out Fox and AON at a whim.
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Actually I disagree here. I think it is totally a political issue, the sort that courts should avoid. Yes, there are established due process rules to follow and you cannot punish someone without fair warning, but the president's relationship with the media is highly political and not a proper subject for the courts to be meddling in.

Surely Trump knew this was the likely outcome, so I wonder if he is playing a different game. He may use this ruling as justification to shut down the daily briefings. I can't believe actual voters would care. They despise the media as much as Trump does.
 
All the media outlets, even CNN and MSNBC said that the WH can take the judge's guidance and create a set of standards and process and still kick him out. But it is not as easy as that since the due process still has to pass the administrative law standards of arbitrary and capricious. It is a battle not worth fighting because Trump still called on Acosta after the incident and does like the give and take with the media.

This is not an issue the WH should fall on their sword over.
 
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