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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge weighing whether to block President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from White House grounds expressed some skepticism Wednesday in response to the government's defense of the move.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who was nominated by Trump in 2017, didn't rule from the bench after hearing arguments in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
But the judge questioned whether the administration met its legal responsibilities and provided CNN, MS NOW and Politico with adequate due process before banning them, assailing what he called “fake news.” More recently, the president has said negative coverage was dangerous for the country.
The news outlets argued they were singled out because of their coverage content — in other words, viewpoint discrimination — and called the ban a “blatant violation” of the First Amendment.
Kelly said his decision must be guided by prior rulings in comparable First Amendment cases, even if the government disagrees with them.
“I think it is fair to say that the processes that the court laid out wasn’t followed here,” Kelly said.
It wasn't clear when Kelly, who ordered a CNN journalist’s access restored in a similar 2018 case, would issue a decision on the outlets’ request for a restraining order. But he said he’d rule as soon as possible.
“These are urgent matters," Theodore Boutrous Jr., attorney for the outlets, said. "We’re at war. We have world leaders coming to Washington.”
CNN, Politico and MS NOW each told The Associated Press they’d have no comment on the emergency hearing.
Prior rulings indicate journalists should be heard before press passes are revoked
Kelly opened by reminding both sides that he’s required to apply case precedent.
The rulings in two prior cases over press access — including one that went to the U.S. Supreme Court — made clear that journalists were entitled to an opportunity to be heard before they have their press passes revoked.
Justice Department attorney Michael Velchik argued that the rulings in the earlier cases were wrong.
“Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right,” Velchik said.
In arguing that Trump was not engaging in viewpoint discrimination, Velchik said the president had criticized other news organizations even more harshly — such as calling ABC “the worst” — but hadn’t banned them.
“The president should be able to take immediate action to protect national security,” Velchik told the court.
In response, Boutrous said, “Suddenly it’s a national security case,” arguing that the president brought up that point only after the lawsuit was filed.
Trump “keeps proving our point,” Boutrous said, describing how the president has consistently used negative coverage of him as justification for the ban.
Boutrous called the ban an “unprecedented, unreasonable punishment” and said there was “not a semblance of due process.”
The Trump administration outlined ‘reporting incidents’ of each news outlet
In a filing late Tuesday, administration lawyers argued that the ban does not violate the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to a free press. It contended that the outlets, in their reporting, violated “standards of professionalism and decorum.”
The administration went on to detail letters sent to each outlet that identified “a non-exhaustive list of reporting incidents, including those that have threatened national security and spread falsehoods.”
The “reporting incidents” cited in the filing included: CNN reporting on “‘top-secret' construction details related to the East Wing bunker”; MS NOW reporting “on an alleged leak investigation”; and Politico publishing “a document detailing funding for the White House ballroom containing intricate descriptions of how the Secret Service would invest in security improvements.”
Further examples were given in individual letters. Politico’s letter detailed six reporting instances, including in June citing a “senior administration official … granted anonymity” predicting whether a preliminary deal would end the conflict with Iran.
That item appeared to reference a background briefing set up by the White House, where an official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House itself. Several other outlets also reported the official's remarks.
Major networks continue to refrain from covering Trump for the media pool
The ban prompted other media outlets to take action in solidarity. The five-network U.S. network press pool — a rotating cast of news outlets that covers the president, and to which CNN belongs — decided to suspend coverage of Trump events until further notice.
After the hearing Wednesday, the networks were poised to continue their ban on filming Trump coverage. At Joint Base Andrews, where the president was to formally welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping later, journalists from Fox News, CBS and NBC were present but not shooting video, and some appeared to be breaking down their cameras.
Other television outlets whose crews were present, according to signs on their tripods and cameras, were NewsNation, Newsmax, Right Side Broadcasting Network, One America News and LindellTV.
Ahead of Wednesday's hearing, an amicus brief was filed by other news groups, urging the court to immediately restore the three outlets' White House access.
The brief — filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents' Association and 49 media outlets and industry groups, including The Associated Press, The New York Times and Reuters — says “the targeted expulsion of news media from White House grounds injures the public interest."
The proceedings are historic, said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
“No president has taken this explicit of a step” to ban entire outlets because he doesn’t like their reporting, she said. “There have been various presidents throughout history who have grumbled about the press or threatened to take more major steps, but really there was nothing at this level before Trump.”
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Noveck reported from New York. Associated Press journalists Laurie Kellman in London and Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-defend-ban-three-165451903.htmlBy David Morgan
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - US states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens to the nation’s voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors made while processing their driver's license and state ID applications, according to official records reviewed by Reuters.
The cases expose weaknesses in voter registration systems across a dozen US states governed by both Democrats and Republicans, but at numbers that experts said were too small relative to the country’s more than 170 million registered voters to impact elections. Reuters was not able to determine how many of these non-citizens actually cast a ballot.
The findings suggest that inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally, are a major source of non-citizen registrations, and raise questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue.
President Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed, without evidence, that non-citizen voting is widespread and part of an organized conspiracy led by Democrats who hope to retake Congress in November's midterm elections, and are pushing lawmakers to toughen up voting requirements.
New Jersey announced the most recent high-profile case of errant voter registrations over the summer, saying a technology glitch added about 6,600 non-citizens to voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024, even though they answered "no" when asked if they were citizens while applying for licenses and IDs.
Bureaucratic errors have also been reported in at least 11 other states – including Republican strongholds like Iowa, Texas and South Dakota - bringing the nationwide figure above 30,000 since 2000, according to the Reuters reporting.
A nationwide tally of such mistakes has not previously been reported.
Reuters used data from the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a non-profit group that tracks claims of non-citizen voter registration and voting, to identify states where self-declared non-citizens were registered. Reuters then verified the numbers with state officials, court records, and local media reports.
The data showed errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
The numbers are inexact because state data is often tentative and subject to revision.
Such mistakes are likely a top reason non-citizens make it onto the nation’s voter rolls, according to Don Palmer, a senior legal fellow for election integrity at the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Trump-appointed chair of the US Election Assistance Commission.
"I think that’s the primary issue," Palmer said. "Driver's license agencies often make mistakes, and they often are not taking this as seriously as election officials." He said states also need to do more to verify voter eligibility.
SAVE AMERICA?
The White House has pressured Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a proposal to crack down on illegal voting that would require people to show proof of US citizenship to register to vote, and a photo ID to cast a ballot.
But it is unlikely such a bill would prevent the kinds of mistakes being made by state agencies, said David Becker, executive director of CEIR.
"In each of these instances, the individual did exactly what they were supposed to do. If there was some requirement that you had to show proof of citizenship, these problems would still exist, because the processes themselves failed," he said.
Proponents of the SAVE America Act say it is a common-sense way to ensure only eligible voters can cast ballots. Most states don’t require documented proof of citizenship.
Critics counter that the legislation's restrictions could disenfranchise millions of voters who lack easy access to passports or birth certificates, including low-income people and racial minorities, while creating unnecessary turmoil for the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
"This is not a problem," said Elaine Kamarck, an expert on governance at the Brookings Institution. "There's just no evidence that massive numbers of non-citizens are voting."
Immigrants do sometimes make false declarations about their citizenship in order to be registered to vote in US elections, according to the Department of Justice. But there is no evidence to show it is widespread.
A Reuters data analysis published earlier this year showed federal prosecutors have charged only 129 people under a federal "voting by aliens" statute created by Congress in 1996. In none of those cases did prosecutors allege a coordinated effort to influence an election.
The White House said non-citizen voter registrations were proof that US elections have been compromised and cited 11 arrests of non-citizens for illegal voting announced by federal authorities since May.
"The real story here is after decades of the media denying that non-citizens register and vote in our elections, they are finally being forced to admit after a flurry of recent arrests nationwide that it does happen," White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement.
AN OLD LAW
Underlying the glitches and human errors are state motor-voter systems that register people to vote when they apply for driver's licenses, state IDs and other government services under the National Voter Registration Act.
The largely Democratic initiative to address low voter participation passed in 1993 with bipartisan support under then-President Bill Clinton. Voter registration has climbed to more than 86% in 2024, from 62% in 1990, according to Census data and the US Election Assistance Commission.
Republicans claim that such state motor-voter systems have become a major problem, however, due to the doubling of the US immigrant population since 1990.
Automatically registering people to vote in this way "is irrational when you realize people that are not citizens in the United States are getting driver's licenses," said US Representative Bryan Steil, a Wisconsin Republican who oversees federal election policy as chair of the House Administration Committee.
All 50 states allow legal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, while 19 US states and the District of Columbia also provide driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants.
FOREIGN PASSPORTS, BIRTH CERTIFICATES
Randall Marquis, a Canadian who lives in California, remembers the day when he got a card in the mail notifying him that he was registered to vote in the 2018 midterm elections during Trump's first term.
"I just said, ‘Well, this is stupid.’ So, I put it aside. But after thinking about it, I decided, no, it's more than stupid. This is bad!" the 71-year-old green card holder told Reuters.
He alerted news organizations, and state officials later disclosed that as many as 1,500 non-citizens had been mistakenly registered to vote by the California Department of Motor Vehicles due to a processing error, according to media reports.
State officials did not respond to Reuters queries seeking confirmation.
Similar problems have happened in Oregon where hundreds of immigrants who presented foreign passports and birth certificates were registered to vote because of clerical mistakes at the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to state records.
DMV officials also registered hundreds of American Samoans who presented US passports, not realizing that people from the US territory are nationals but not citizens, and therefore not eligible to vote.
In some other states, estimates of registered non-citizens have been initially overstated.
Just before the 2024 election, Iowa, for example, announced that more than 2,000 people had registered to vote or had voted in the state after self-reporting to the Iowa Department of Transportation as non-citizens.
Six months later, the number shrank to 277.
Iowa state officials said 35 non-citizens cast ballots that were counted in the 2024 general election. Overall, more than 1.6 million Iowans voted in that election.
The problems are bigger elsewhere. Since 2014, Virginia has reported hundreds of non-citizens each year on its voter rolls who identified themselves as foreign nationals, with a total of more than 4,500 in 2025 alone, according to annual reports by the state Department of Elections.
State officials say those numbers include people who later became citizens, and others who were stricken off the rolls.
Palmer of the Heritage Foundation said states should be required to address the issue.
"There's an obligation to fix the problem. So, take the politics out, and fix the problem," he said.
(Reporting by David Morgan; editing by Michael Learmonth and Richard Valdmanis)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/thirty-thousand-mistakes-red-blue-100331120.html
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NEED TO KNOW
- Melania Trump insisted that she tells her husband, Donald Trump, how she really feels about his speeches and interviews, even though he “sometimes doesn’t want to hear it”
- “I always say the truth,” she said during an appearance on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, Sept. 23
- The first lady made the comments while discussing what she thought about Trump’s United Nations General Assembly speech in New York City the day prior
Melania Trump said her husband, President Donald Trump, “doesn’t always want to hear it” when she shares her thoughts.
Speaking on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, Sept. 23, Melania, 56, praised Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City the day prior when questioned whether he’d asked for any feedback from his wife.
“I told him he had [a] great delivery, he did very well. And a great speech,” the first lady — who was on the show to discuss the launch of Imperia, a network for women CEOs, and her Fostering the Future Together initiative — said.
She added of her husband, “So I tell him the truth. Sometimes he doesn’t want to hear it, what I tell him, but that’s okay. I always say the truth.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Melania also spoke about how Trump, 80, had been handling his second term as president, in comparison to his first term in office, saying, “He’s very focused. He has a lot on his plate. It’s very different, what’s going on around the world now. But I think he’s doing the best that he can.”
“He works nonstop. He has the most energy than anybody. He’s from morning [until] evening nonstop working,” she added.
Trump has previously mentioned Melania giving him feedback, including when he said she wasn’t a fan of his onstage dancing earlier this year.
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Meanwhile, Melania recently ended a 32-day absence from public view with a speech from the White House Rose Garden on Aug. 20, highlighting her Fostering the Future initiative and plans to expand its national network, PEOPLE previously reported.
At the time, Melania approached the podium and immediately began her speech, saying, “Good afternoon. I heard you missed me?” The audience laughed before she added, “Here I am.”
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Her comments about Trump on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning came after the president addressed world leaders across the globe on Tuesday, Sept. 22.
During his speech, he boasted about his record as a peacemaker, as well as questioning whether he should “annihilate” Iran.
The president also took a moment to address CNN during a press exchange at the event after spotting one of the network’s reporters days after he announced a ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House.
“I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here! You should not be here covering me. You said you weren’t going to cover me. You shouldn’t be covering me,” he told CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins.
Collins could be heard replying, “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.” She repeated her assertion in a post on X, saying that CNN was “credentialed by the United Nations to cover the General Assembly.”
During her exchange with the president, she asked, “Two thirds of Americans don’t think the U.S. is winning the war with Iran. When will it end?”
Trump replied, “We’re making a lot of progress. Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much, everybody.”
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