US judge orders Pentagon to restore press access

Followed shortly by yet another judge suspending the executive order because it violates the reporters' first amendment rights. And around and around we go.

That was done, and then blocked, which lead to this latest move.

Nah they’ll just ignore it outright

For national security reasons of course. Reasons they can't disclose because of national security reasons.

How dare the journalists abridge the government's right to free speech like that!

Taibbi in shambles

A stern talking to and a hard glare. I’m sure they’ll get right on it.

Judge ordered them to obey his order and have an administration official sign an affidavit attesting to compliance If they don't do that, or lie, the judge will likely have a show cause hearing. He could jail someone or assign fines The problem is POTUS could tell USMS not to arrest and jail the person for contempt... And now we get a Constitutional crisis between the Executive and Judicial Branches.

I'm betting the cut the budget for snow crab right out from under ol' Pentagon Petey

Hegseth's complimentary 64oz morning growler will be downgraded to 48oz for a week.

Right. What's the point of rights if the govt can violate them with impunity?

maybe they’ll continue to not do audits

A bottle of whisky

[This.](https://youtu.be/gBzoKIvvbI0) Maybe…

It shows they had no moral or ethical compass in the first place. Instead of their convictions determining the direction of their political party, they just blindly adopted every single stance they were told to. This is what a lack of critical thinking looks like.

Republicans in the 70s and 80s pushed *hard* for harsher drug offense laws, specifically to target minority groups and hippies. You can’t do that without maintaining a list to track who gets arrested. Before that, the Red Scare encouraged people to report their neighbors if they harbored “communist” or “anti-American” sentiment. Again, that only works if you keep a list of “dissidents.” Republicans have always wanted to list and track the “wrong” type of Americans.

It wouldn't when you tell them who is being targeted with these actions.  Republicans have never, ever had a moral code. They are just marginally more open now with their true goals.

I remember y2k GOP being just fine with the Patriot Act.

Well that's before they realized the grave threat trans people, immigrants, fair elections and Iran (???!!!!) are to our great Nation.

...are you talking about the same Bush-era Republicans that cheered on the Patriot Act, TSA and ICE?

You may need to reeducate yourself about them because I can definitely tell you they'll be more than okay with it 

I'm all in on shitting on Republicans but I still think it's honestly true that Y2K Republicans were willing to do sketchy things. Democrats too, unfortunately.

The last election they were attacking Biden for requesting social media companies moderate Covid misinformation and when they were private citizens requesting naked pictures of Hunter Biden be removed. That apparently was a massive injustice against free speech.

Just imagine to then turn to a dem from that time and be like, “and you’re going to be the party that is obsessed with policing speech, and will align strongly with the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry against “my body my choice.” It would be like the twin towers exploding and falling to the ground. And nobody else there will get that reference.

can't be to brash in your actions, they'll need to put all the planning and consequence prediction resources that have been sitting idle to use. They might have a plan to restore access in an orderly fashion on a 4 year timescale.

After stating the Pentagon's position that the court had removed security and enforcement mechanisms, the court says, In short, this is nonsense. (Nice) In a footnote about the Pentagon explaining the e***** simply had not been fully briefed, the court says, Really? (Hilarious)

Then they send a strongly worded letter of condemnation, and call it a day.

No press organization was left with access after the censorship policy was enacted, nobody remained to argue for the restoration of those purged. The only organization that agreed to Hegseth's policy was OANN, and they sure aren't in the business of being the press, they exist to be a mouthpiece of the regime. Everyone else pulled out, including Fox, and they all filed lawsuits such as the one from this article challenging the legality of what has once again been proven in a court of law to be an illegal order.

Fox News isn't and never was a news organization. They're an entertainment network. Hope this helps.

Why? To shove completely biased, politically controlled information down our troops' throats?