Judge Rules: Pentagon Press Limits Unconstitutional

Finally someone with some common sense pushes back against the Pentagon’s removal of the independent press corps. Does this mean that we’ll start seeing real coverage from the pentagon again or has the damage already been done.

https://archive.ph/1pirI
Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism

The ruling cut deeper than left-versus-right politics, declaring that the policy imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unconstitutional.

A federal judge on Friday forcefully defended the constitutional freedom to report independently and without government control, striking down the Trump administration’s unprecedented restrictions on reporters that have emptied the Pentagon’s halls of traditional journalists at a time of expanding war.

“A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription,” wrote Judge Paul L. Friedman of the Federal District Court in Washington.

“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech,” he continued. “That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.”
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P.S. I looked to update the original post but I couldn’t find it.

The most transparent administration in the history of the world…

score 1 for the 4th estate..

Politburo News 0 Free Press 1

You mean podcasters and Trump favorable Indy reporters weren’t enough news from the Pentagon.

Ol' Onion Skin Petey is smarting with that one.

Guy is doing his best to appease donny by hiding what he wants to do.