{"id":980,"date":"2026-09-24T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:23:50","slug":"judge-orders-white-house-to-restore-press-passes-for-cnn-politico-and-ms-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders White House to restore press passes for CNN, Politico and MS NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-24\/Getty_Trumpmediaban_092426.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Signs of support for AP, CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO hang on the White House grounds on September 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Finn Gomez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge has granted CNN, Politico and MS NOW a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to restore the outlets\u2019 hard-pass press credentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The order requires the defendants, excluding President Donald Trump, as well as their agents and representatives, to \u201cimmediately return, reinstate, and restore\u201d the White House hard-pass press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW and Politico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Judge Timothy Kelly granted the media organizations\u2019 request in the ongoing case Cable News Networks, Inc. v. Trump after their credentials were revoked on Sept. 18, according to the court order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The temporary restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days, unless otherwise ordered by the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kelly expressed skepticism about the Trump administration\u2019s argument that the stories it cited as justification for revoking the outlets\u2019 press credentials raised national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kelly described the stories identified by the administration as \u201croutine\u201d and said he was \u201cskeptical\u201d that the government\u2019s stated interest in safeguarding national security was the actual motivation for revoking the hard passes. He also noted that Trump did not mention national security concerns when he announced the ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of Plaintiffs\u2019 hard passes was motivated by national security concerns,&#8221; Kelly said in the filing. &#8220;Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was \u201cbanning\u201d Plaintiffs from the White House &#8212; instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs\u2019 reporting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs of support for AP, CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO hang on the White House grounds on September 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Finn Gomez\/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge has granted CNN, Politico and MS NOW a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to restore the outlets\u2019 hard-pass press credentials. The order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}