A federal judge has heard complaints from CNN, MSNOW and Politico about President Donald Trump’s decision to ban them from the White House over biased reporting, and has promised to make a decision.
But not immediately, as the lawsuit plaintiffs had insisted.
Meanwhile, commentator and longtime media expert Brit Hume noted that the biased reports were just that, in fact, they were “comically unbalanced.”
Trump earlier banished AP reporters form some parts of the White House because the organization insisted on calling what he had designated as the Gulf of America the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump’s decision was affirmed by a federal judge.
Now the various corporations are challenging Trump’s decision to banish “fake news” reporters.
He, in fact, has explained that such negative coverage as the organizations have delivered actually is dangerous for the country.
Judge Timothy Kelly heard the lawsuit by the media groups, but didn’t rule immediately.
🚨 BREAKING: The CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO media ban hearing has concluded with NO RULING from the judge
They’re going to have an absolute MELTDOWN 🤣
The legacy media was BEGGING Judge Kelly to rule IMMEDIATELY. He declined, and said he’d get back to them later.
President… pic.twitter.com/tyzpwxM6af
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2026
🚨 NOW: The DOJ in court is HITTING BACK against CNN, after they claimed they CANNOT be removed from the White House for KNOWINGLY publishing classified information
“Access to the White House is a PRIVILEGE — NOT a right.”
“The court just heard CNN put forth an ABSURD… pic.twitter.com/QUmKOuKr0Z
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2026
Previous court precedent has said that “reporters” must have an opportunity to be heard before their passes are revoked.
Lawyer Theodore Boutrous Jr. told the court the banishment is “unreasonable punishment.”
The White House has pointed out it is not obstructing any of the reporting duties by the individuals involved, it just isn’t allowing them at the White House, a location that is controlled by the president.
The administration has told the court the reporting by the outlets violated “standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House complex, including by trafficking in verifiable falsehoods about national security and other issues and publishing sensitive or classified information.”
It confirmed that letters were dispatched to the organizations identifying “a non-exhaustive list of reporting incidents, including that that have threatened national security and spread falsehoods.”
Trump has given the organizations until Friday to respond to his accusations of “reported national security breaches.”
Trump has said, “I think we have a right to clean out fake news.”
Other news organizations, claiming solidarity, have since declined to do some of the First Amendment reporting they otherwise might have, they said.
Brit Hume’s opinion was clear:
🚨 NEW: Fox’s @brithume SPEAKS OUT on White House ban of CNN and MS Now: “I think the president has a case. Some of the coverage that’s been done by the organizations that have now been banned from the White House has been almost comically unbalanced.”
“And they’ve pursued all… pic.twitter.com/7MuM0esstu
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) September 21, 2026
“I think the president has a case. Some of the coverage that’s been done by the organizations that have now been banned from the White House has been almost comically unbalanced,” he said.
Further, “They’ve pursued all kinds of stories — the Russia collusion matter being chief among them — that have ended up dead ends. It seems clearly motivated by a belief that Donald Trump’s presence in the White House is a national emergency and that their job was to somehow take him down.”
The Washington media chorus was at full volume during the time Democrats were fabricating the Russia collusion conspiracy theory against President Trump. In fact, some of that “reporting,” which failed to identify the claims as falsehoods, won “awards” that have yet to be returned.
Hume added that the president’s actions will rally his base.
“I’ve seen by the reactions on social media that people who were MAGA, who were for Trump, think this is great. Right on, brother.”
