As tensions spike between journalists and the president, here’s a look at ‘viewpoint discrimination’
Associated PressNEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s executive order was clear: The Gulf of Mexico was out after hundreds of years. A federal judge hearing the case this week observed that it seemed an obvious constitutional problem, calling Trump’s actions “pretty clearly viewpoint discrimination.” What is viewpoint discrimination? Speaking Tuesday, the day after the federal court hearing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration “will determine who gets to enjoy the very privileged and limited access” to the president and would add new voices and reporters into it while rotating out “traditional” media like wire services and major newspapers. ‘You’ve never had the Supreme Court deciding a case about journalist access to the White House or even to the president,” Goldberg said. “Conditioning pool access to White House events on the editorial decisions of any news organization violates First Amendment principles,” the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press wrote Friday.
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