Judge forces White House to give Acosta his pass back
A federal judge on November 16 ordered the White House to restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials, handing the Trump administration an immediate legal loss in a fight it had framed as discipline but looked a lot more like retaliation. The ruling made the suspension of Acosta’s hard pass look impulsive, constitutionally shaky, and wildly overconfident for a White House that had already been tripping over its own explanation for why the reporter was blocked.
A federal judge on November 16 ordered the White House to restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials, handing the Trump administration an immediate legal loss in a fight it had framed as discipline but looked a lot more like retaliation. The ruling made the suspension of Acosta’s hard pass look impulsive, constitutionally shaky, and wildly overconfident for a White House that had already been tripping …
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