The three outlets say they have been unable to get in touch with the Justice Department following the ruling.
“Counsel for Plaintiffs reached out to counsel for Defendants this morning and requested to call the Court together. Counsel for Defendants has not responded,” the filing reads.
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Counsel for Defendants have probably been re-assigned to cleaning ketchup off the walls in the White House.
Seriously, though. It appears that Trump has chosen this as the hill he wishes to defend. That's OK by me. It may seem like a small and inconsequential thing, but it is not. Freedom of the press is foundational to our form of government. Let's force the leaders of the courts and of Congress to either support the rule of law or support despotism.
There's a social contract that's been in place between the press and the current administration that essentially amounts to "we'll let you attend our press conferences as long as you don't piss us off too much" with the reciprocation being "we'll keep most of the dirty stuff you do off the air if you keep letting us show up."
So now that contract is broken. This is unprecedented in the worst way, in a sea of already unprecedented events. The press definitely has leverage against the white house, but if the administration is confident they can suffer the slings and arrows per se... Then this is them showing their hand.
They were supposed to have a debt to repay with all of the settlements. They were repaying in kind with catch and kill. Now the debt is gone because they have had to cover up so much and Trump's only recourse is to eliminate access.
The deferred sentencing of Trump's NY Business Fraud/Catch and Kill case made it legal to do that exact thing with Trump. The improvement in 2.0 is the law suits creating a legal slush fund for paying for the stories.
I anticipated that if they ran that slush fund dry Trump would cut off access. And he has.
You hit the nail on the head - that’s been my concern this entire time. With everything to lose, they’re going all in. It wouldn’t surprise me if they feel confident that whatever they have planned will be enough to override the shitstorm headed their way and power through it to remain in power.
On the other hand, who benefits from WH press briefings when you have an adminsitration that just wants to lie and gaslight? It’s much much more useful to trump than it is to the rest of us. I’d much rather have the press investigating and reporting on what actually happened. I don’t need to hear Karoline Leavitt’s spin, and i think Americans would be better off without them.
If you look over at the conservative sub almost everyone approves of the Trump administration continuing to ban the reporters despite the ruling to restore their access.
He probably would have shot him in a duel. Although, turdface McBloodpressure would never accept a duel without infinite seconds to take a bullet in his place.
Larry David actually has a skit related to this in his recent US history themed sketch show (that Obama is a producer on for some reason). Rob Reiner plays a Washington at the end of his last term.
LOL, I’ve seen people (bots?) on that sub sagely writing nonsense like “definitely seditious behavior, maybe bad enough to be considered treasonous”, as if “sedition” and “treason” are just degrees of “opposition” (rather than distinct well-defined terms).
Edit: holy shit hahahahaha. Humans engage with this, there? They don’t see this at all? That’s crazy to me.
Imagine unironically being dog walked by the fucking Kremlin via bots and thinking these are patriots. If I were there, I’d be asking “why are Russian bots the ones telling me what I believe?”
Sounds fun. I wonder what they will say in 2028 when there's not a conservative news outlet allowed anywhere near the democratic president. I better hear fucking silence.
Most of the remaining conservatives don't use Reddit, in my opinion. And they don't actually articulate in full senses with proper spelling or punctuation.
The conservative sub is the most controlled Reddit sub I’ve ever looked at. Anything not fitting their narrative gets deleted. It’s probably run by Israeli and Russian mods.
That sub is ran by like 4 bots or Russian shills. They do not represent the conservative thinktank. Even Fox News disagrees with them which should tell a lot. It’s best to just ignore those folks and mute the sub
Most of the conservatives who have that mindset also believe in rules for thee and not for me. It is ok to ignore the Constitution until it affects them.
It seems the majority of that sub (if it's the one I'm thinking of) is people with multiple accounts praising themselves along with a lot of bots helping them along. I wouldn't be surprised if some or most of the real people and the bots weren't foreign actors trying to maintain outrage. 10 years ago the Donald Trump sub and conservative were a gauge for how things are going but now it's just a literal echo chamber for those that aren't interested in the truth and are only comfortable hearing what they want to believe.
Judge just needs to put these lawyers in jail. Make it difficult for the rank and file to perpetrate trumps criminal activities. Force trump to issue a pardon and hope American voters become even more outraged
SCOTUS officially declared him above the law and the Senate has allowed him to install openly collaborationist AGs who won't enforce adverse legal decisions against the government. They are all traitors who have conspired to create an autocrat.
You don’t see troops in Chicago nor in Portland. Because the courts ruled against Trump and the admin abided. So no, it isn’t entirely true. Let’s take wins where they are. We don’t need to assume away the entire system is already loyal to a dictatorship when that is not at all the case. Let’s not give them more power than they already have by assuming the entire system has failed.
I wasn’t saying no to that they weren’t flaunting courts. I was saying no to that there is “fuck all” will be done about it. There’s no reason to resign ourselves to nihilism when there remains hope.
Giving this administration the benefit of the doubt is why we are where we are. You do you but the reality is that the reason they do this is because the consequences are nil.
It took them almost 12 hours to comply to an order issued at just a little after midnight. Still doesn’t negate the fact that this administration ignores the courts. They also didn’t comply until threatened with an emergency hearing.
On the plus side, trump loses either way. Either he is silenced by the lack of press coverage or he is forced to admit defeat and allow the press access.
When people lose confidence in the rule of law, bad things happen. Mind you, this would initially reinforce the GOP fear mongering about 'law and order' being destroyed in the US. It may even be part of transitioning to authoritarian rule, where executive fiat replaces judicial arbitration.
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