On Friday, President Donald Trump said he was "proud to announce" that, "effective immediately," he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico "from the White House as a result of their constant 'reporting' [of] FAKE NEWS!" News organizations "shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they're covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America," he explained. "Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow."
That move predictably provoked a federal lawsuit by the targeted outlets, which argue that it violates due process and freedom of the press. "This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment [or] a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles," CNN et al. say in their complaint, which they filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
