Posted on 11/16/2018 7:33:48 AM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON—A federal judge granted an emergency motion to restore the White House press credential of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta—a victory for the network in a closely watched press-freedom case.
The lawsuit could determine whether the government can ban individual reporters from public buildings.
District Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by President Trump, granted CNN’s request for a restraining order temporarily restoring Mr. Acosta’s press access to the White House while the case proceeds.
Lawyers for Mr. Acosta, the network’s chief White House correspondent, argued that the unusual revocation of a reporter’s press pass by the White House last week necessitated emergency action.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Nonsense
You cannot sell your White House press access. Another attempt to twist the law to say something it does not
Actually, if a judge, courtroom or legal jurisdiction had somehow over time allowed access and/or permission, the same 5A rules would apply to them as well. Everyone should become with the concept of adverse possession, and how over time rights, privileges and even ownership can accrue. It's actually one of the core foundation aspects of law governing private property.
However, lawyers are generally pretty smart, so they would never allow such a situation to be created in the first place. Trump's mistake was honoring prior protocol, instead of revoking all passes and creating a new system that stipulated terms and conditions. But guess what's coming next? Exactly that kind of tightened up permit process.
Wow, you really are pretty dense. CNN can assign their press pass to anyone in their employ. Why would you post such nonsense that can be so easily rebutted in public?
These judges do exist based upon the disingenuousness of perverted case law and “a living Constitution”, thus your unprincipled legalism is faulty in the face of actual enumerations (It is what it says it is and that is the bottom line until you enumerate to what you desire). Without enumeration and texualism, our laws can be interpreted at will, gee, just like the perverted track known as case law (The antithesis of Natural Law of absolutes BTW).
To summarize, it has *value*. Now, does anyone ever notice the long legal contract on the back of a parking or theater stub? What it specifically says is that the user only has a right to the specific conditions of usage ie performance/parking time, and that no other common law rights are created.
This ruling is in no way a victory for CNN; rather it’s a major loss for the MSM. Because know Trump can revoke *everyone’s* pass, establish a firm set of guidelines, rules and procedures governing codes of conduct, and then re-issue passes under those stipulated terms and conditions. Furthermore, there is nothing stopping Trump from setting up an application process where any citizen can petition for a pass.
I vote for:
1. Litigating this nonsense to the Supreme Court, if necessary. The US Constitution does not give our Judicial Branch the power to control who is admitted to the White House.
2. Holding no more press conferences. Using “Twitter” and “fire-side chats” instead.
3. Giving one-on-one interviews to non-US reporters and other “serious” (real) journalists.
4. Fumigating and redecorating the “offices” now used by the White House Press Corps.
5. While the redecoration is proceeding, creating a new “press corps briefing room” that is not in the White House and that has no special seats for the self-selected “elite reporters”.
Except he didn’t. The notion that White House access is “property right thur usage” is another attempt to twist the law to say something it doesn’t. You cannot sell your White House pass. it not “the Journalists”. What it IS, is a grant of privileged access from the President to the Journalist. Based on the law there is utterly NO legitmacy to the decision today.
What this judge said was because the WH allows Journalists access, it cannot BAN this Journalist. That such a intellectually stupid argument it is clear it was not written based on the law but a pathetic attempt to avoid having to make a judgement that would piss off “the press”.
Based on this ruling ANY “Journalist’ must be granted access to the White House because other journalists are granted access. Simply manufacture a “right” out of thin air. NO base in law at all. Just pure made up nonsense by a gutless coward pretending to be a Judge.
Gutless coward just kicked the can down the road rather then doing his duty.
Nowww. ... okay, he’s got his pass back.
But Trump does not have to call on him ... unless the court gets involved in that too!
. CNN can assign their press pass to anyone in their employ
READ what the Judge actually wrote. You so far out of touch with fact on this.
CNN does not hold the pass. The REPORTER does. Which is why Acosta access was revoked but CNN still has 3 other WH reporters with access.
The pass is a grant of access from the President it is NOT “Cnn’s property.” there is no “right of access” in the 1st Amendment.
To put it bluntly you are just another arrogant moron spouting nonsense legal theory to justify a decision that has ZERO base in Law.
All the Judge did today was make sure HE did not get being virtually tarred and feather by “the Press”
He punted like a coward
Judges have no authority over executive privileges.
Incompetent gov’t lawyers not to give the Judge the video evidence of Sarah’s accounting. The Judge asserts that the White House accounting of the incident was ‘likely not true’ so he believed the lying media about the video being ‘doctored’ which was total bs.
That sounds like legal gobbledygook. The Constitution was written simply; lawyers and their gobbledygook have corrupted it.
Let me put it this way: If someone had approached George Washington in that manner, that someone would have spitting out his teeth, and NO ONE would have complained or argued that George Washington didn’t have a right to do it.
Lawyers have corrupted, convoluted and even prissified our country and its Constitution, creating law where there is none, and corrupting laws that are constitutionally based.
funny how the supreme court can keep cameras out if it wishes, but the executive branch cant!
I HATE the courts!
Suggestion 2:
Install a sophisticated sound system in the press room that records Jimmy the Accoster and plays it back at 1/2 cycle delay. That should cancel most sound coming from him. Just to make things more fun, have a system that changes his voice to sound like he is speaking after breathing helium. THAT should shut him up.
The court cannot enforce it, really. Congress can impeach and convict if they wish. Since the house is going to impeach Trump 24/7 but the Senate will not convict, Trump should just go ahead and do as he sees right. The only drawback would be, if he ignores the court ruling, that the higher court may frown on the White House’s case.
Turtle approved this Judge.
You can’t walk into a prison or high security military installation either. It is public in the sense that it is maintained at the public expense and under public control, the land, the building, and the furnishings inside are not the property of any one individual.
Yes. Why not? Some judge tells the White House that it MUST allow Acosta access? Why can't everyone have access then? This is horrible.
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