Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico just announced they’re suing because they lost White House access. That’s not a First Amendment case. Access to the building is a privilege. It was never a right. The First Amendment stops the government from shutting a newsroom down. It does not force the president to hand you a pass, a pool camera, and a briefing-room chair. You can print whatever you want. You don’t get to do it from his lawn. President Trump barred them Friday. On Saturday their reporters got turned away and their badges were taken. They can still write. They can still go on air. They just don’t get a desk inside the people’s house after years of using that house to sell fiction as news. They can file in D.C. this morning. A judge can hear them. That still doesn’t turn a press badge into a constitutional right. Report from the sidewalk. That’s still a free press. A White House pass is not promised by the First Amendment.