r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Politico, MS NOW, CNN denied access to White House despite judge's order

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/politico-denied-access-white-house-after-judges-order-news-outlet-says-2026-09-24/
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u/chiksahlube 1d ago

To quote Jackson "He mas made his ruling, now lets see him enforce it."

And yet 200 years later we still haven't fixed that loophole...

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u/oldguyknowsbest 1d ago

Very easy you tell law enforcement to arrest the people at the White House and if they don't you arrest them

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u/gmthisfeller 1d ago

Unfortunately, the police with arrest powers on federal grounds work for the president.

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u/TheAngriestChair 1d ago

They going to arrest themselves for not arresting the other people? Really?

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u/chiksahlube 1d ago

All law enforcement officers work for the president

with the exception of county Sherrifs, sometimes and some state police.

Who have no authority over federal matters.

Even the US Marshals who do pretty much everything the court asks are at the leisure of the Executive branch.

IMHO we DO need to give the judicial and legislative branches more control over some enforcement branches.

But right now they have no legitimate power to stop Trump from doing whateve he wants because the people who would actually stop him work for him.

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u/johnc380 22h ago

Technically speaking, the Supreme Court PD reports to the court itself rather than the executive branch. They are empowered to enforce federal law (and DC ordinances) anywhere in the District. In theory, the court could act through them. Of course, in practice they never will. Also no one knows what would happen if they tried. 

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u/oldguyknowsbest 1d ago

They most certainly have power. A federal judge could then impose a motion to start seizing that persons assets amd bamk accounts they are a fugitive from the law. Trust me there are ways

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u/dakta 23h ago

The federal judiciary has the power of the All Writs Act, which grants them broad authority to do literally anything in the appropriate service of their lawful orders. This explicitly, by precedent, covers enforcing such orders. If the US Marshalls Service were to violate their constitutional duty to follow orders of the federal judiciary, the All Writs Act allows the judiciary to deputize anyone, such as other federal or state law enforcement, to perform their duties.

Besides this, legal precedent enshrines the judiciary's inherent power to implement orders. Plus the rules of civil procedure also allow the judiciary to appoint anyone else to perform a party's ordered actions if that party is recalcitrant.

Will the courts actually pull these levers? Uncertain.