Claim

Claim 734

On September 24, 2026, Judge Timothy Kelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a federal trial court, granted CNN, MS NOW and Politico a temporary restraining order, a short-term court order, requiring the White House to reinstate their reporters' hard passes. He found the passes had been revoked without "constitutionally adequate due process." The administration had said the outlets' reporting raised national security concerns. CNN is a plaintiff in the case and the source of this report.

Published 2026-09-24. Last reviewed 2026-09-24. 1 source.

Statement: On September 24, 2026, Judge Timothy Kelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a federal trial court, granted CNN, MS NOW and Politico a temporary restraining order, a short-term court order, requiring the White House to reinstate their reporters' hard passes. He found the passes had been revoked without "constitutionally adequate due process." The administration had said the outlets' reporting raised national security concerns. CNN is a plaintiff in the case and the source of this report.
Field: action
Value: Temporary restraining order granted, 2026-09-24
About: incident 2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico
Source: Judge orders Trump administration to immediately reinstate White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Publisher: CNN (syndicated by KVIA)
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-24
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 2026-09-24

Quotation from the source

In the ruling issued early Thursday, Kelly found the revocation of reporters’ press badges was done without “constitutionally adequate due process.”