Fake News CNN and “Fake Journalist” Jim Acosta are most likely going to lose their bullshit court case against President Trump and other White House officials, accusing President Trump and others of somehow violating Acosta’s First and Fifth Amendment rights.
Fake News CNN & “Fake Journalist” Jim Acosta Will Lose Bullshit Court Case After Removal From WH Press Briefings
The charges brought by CNN and Acosta are total bullshit!
By removing Acosta from future press briefings, President Trump is not harming Fake Journalist Jim Acosta’s first amendment rights. Acosta still has the right to say all of the same lies he has always say – Acosta just won’t be able to say them in the White House Briefing Room.
“No journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House. The president is generally free to open the White House doors to political allies, in the hopes of furthering a particular agenda, and he is equally free to invite in only political foes, in the hopes of convincing them of his position. The First Amendment simply does not regulate these decisions. And the First Amendment does not impose stricter requirements when journalists, as a subset of the public, are granted or denied access to the White House.” President Trump White House
We know that being associated with the White House is what gives Jim Acosta his self-worth, but the truth is that Acosta royally fucked up – and now Acosta just has to deal with his new less important circumstances, while he reports from somewhere other than the White House.
Journalists have no First Amendment right to access the White House and CNN isn’t harmed by having reporter Jim Acosta barred from obtaining press credentials, the Justice Department said Wednesday, firing back at the cable network’s new lawsuit.
CNN has 50 other journalists covering the White House and so the network isn’t punished by having one barred, the department said in a 28-page response filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
“No journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House,” the administration argued.
The lawyers added: “The president is generally free to open the White House doors to political allies, in the hopes of furthering a particular agenda, and he is equally free to invite in only political foes, in the hopes of convincing them of his position. The First Amendment simply does not regulate these decisions. And the First Amendment does not impose stricter requirements when journalists, as a subset of the public, are granted or denied access to the White House.”
The White House said Mr. Trump gave his personal blessing to strip Mr. Acosta’s pass last week after he verbally sparred with the president during a press conference, then got into an altercation with a White House intern. When the woman came to take the microphone from him, Mr. Acosta refused to give it back, using his hand to chop at the woman’s elbow as she tried to take control of the microphone.
That contact has been widely debated. CNN downplayed it, while the White House said it was a physical assault on the woman, and used that as one justification for revoking Mr. Acosta’s press pass.
The Justice Department said his conduct “disrupts press events and impedes other reporters from asking questions,” which officials said was “a more-than-sufficient reason for revoking his hard pass.”
CNN counters that the move will produce a “chilling effect” in the media.
Fox News, the Associated Press and other press outlets agreed, announcing Wednesday they will file friend-of-the-court briefs backing CNN.
The Justice Department, though, pointed to a 2006 case involving a dispute between Maryland’s governor and the Baltimore Sun newspaper. A federal court in that case ruled the governor didn’t violate the First Amendment by ordering state employees not to speak with two reporters from the paper.
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