Stephen Portnoy
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first heard Aug 2026
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Now, uh last year there was this case about the Associated Press and whether they could be uh continuing to be part of the pool, the small contingent of reporters that cover the president in tight spaces like the Oval Office or Air Force One.
And while a district court judge ruled in favor of the AP, saying
That their First Amendment rights were being violated, the circuit court said that it would put that ruling on pause and continue to allow the president to decide for himself who gets admitted to his Oval Office.
The president said on Friday that he believes that he should have the right to exclude reporters from, as he put it, the people's house.
The longstanding rulings here have said that once the White House opens its doors to journalists generally.
that the White House can't engage in viewpoint discrimination.
It can't say, well we don't like your reporting so you're not allowed and we do like your reporting so you are allowed.
That goes directly against the First Amendment.
Iranian-backed Houthi militants launching a new wave of missiles and drones at commercial ships.
twice now, Mike.
Okay.
The name was on the side of the building after a vote in December of last year by the Board of Trustees that it should be called the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center.
Right.
Well, Judge Christopher Cooper ruled in May of this year that Congress created the Kennedy Center as a lasting living memorial to John F. Kennedy.
that only Congress can change the name of it.
And so Trump's name had to come down.
You saw the tarp and the scaffolding.
They took the name down, but the tarp's still up.
And then over the summer, last month, the board voted again to honor the president a different way, saying, all right, well, it'll be the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, renovated and restored by Donald J. Trump and possibly endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.
Well, on Tuesday of this week, Judge Cooper said that too violates the law, a law dating back to the 1980s, which says that there can't be any other memorials at the Kennedy Center other than to John F. Kennedy in the public areas.
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