In-Air WiFi Blog Post: Tangerine Cannot Suspend The Free Press. Period.

Those CNN (and other) reporters' hard passes are immediately restored -- for 1600 Penn press events. Amendment First still exists -- even if Trump cannot read and comprehend the clear English language, in the Bill of Rights.

Indeed, Tangerine 1.0 lost exactly this same sort of overreach case -- during his first term. See, Jennings. What a malign moron:

. . .[Trumpian] Defendants do not dispute that [CNN] Plaintiffs did not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before their hard passes were revoked. And, as in Karem, the record is bereft of any relevant "formally articulated standards" in place before any of the conduct for which Defendants revoked their hard passes. Karem, 960 F.3d at 665. One standard Defendants appear to offer reflected in letters they sent to Plaintiffs on September 22, 2026, identifying their objectionable reporting is so vague it hardly does the trick. See, e.g., ECF No. 16-1 ("[Y]our organization has exhibited behavior in violation of the standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House Complex.").

Moreover, Defendants renewed Plaintiff Betsy Klein's hard pass several months after she published some of the identified reporting, undercutting any argument that she or her employer, for example, had the requisite notice that the conduct at issue violated a relevant standard. See ECF No. 2-3 9| 4; ECF No. 16-1. Finally, nothing put Plaintiffs on notice of the magnitude of the sanction Defendants imposed. Karem, 960 F.3d at 665.

None of Defendants' arguments convince the Court that Plaintiffs are not likely to succeed on their due process claim. Defendants say that Sherrill and Karem were wrongly decided. ECF No. 16 at 12. Maybe -- but this Court is bound by D.C. Circuit precedent, full stop. . . .

On the plane, I just saw that the White House Security team is willfully violating this USDC Judge Timothy Kelly TRO -- on Trump's explicit direction. Time to hold him in contempt. Damn.

Housekeeping note: When I land in Paris. . . I'm back on blog-vacation, until the 29^th. . . smile.

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