Acosta Has No Constitutional Right to a White House Pass

November 17, 2018 By Daniel John Sobieski

If you wanted a constitutional crisis, folks, federal judge Thomas Kelly has given us one with the issuance of a temporary restraining order requiring the Trump White House to reinstate CNN’s petulant Jim Acosta’s press pass giving him access to the building in which President Trump resides and leads the Free World.

Revoking Acosta’s press pass did not threaten the First Amendment rights of either CNN or Acosta.

CNN is free to broadcast what it wants and report on anything it wants and Acosta is free to do the same. The funny thing about freedom of speech and freedom of the press is that while both freedoms are constitutionally guaranteed, the Constitution does not guarantee a right to a particular forum.

There is no more right for Jim Acosta to have White House credentials than there is to have White House press conferences at all:...........We now have a federal court suggesting courts have a right to tell the White House, part of a separate branch of government, how to run itself. How is this constitutional?..........Read more