Trump to be sued by MS NOW, CNN, Politico to reverse White House ban

US President Donald J. Trump looks on as he makes an announcement on healthcare in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 18, 2026. REvan Vucci | ReutersMS NOW, CNN and Politico are set to sue President Donald Trump on Monday morning and to ask a federal judge to reverse his total ban on those three media outlets from the White House.Journalists from the outlets were prevented from entering the White House on Saturday, a day after Trump announced he would bar them from working there."This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles," the lawsuit says."Presidents from the earliest days of the Republic have disagreed with and complained about the tenor and content of press coverage of their administrations," the complaint, set to be filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, notes.But "the Constitution protects the liberty and property interests that news organizations and White House reporters have in their press credentials and the access those credentials afford them to cover the White House for the benefit of the public," the suit says. "No official can...