White House press credentials are a privilege not a right.
Via NY Daily News:
Former journalist Sam Donaldson says he has been asked to prepare an affidavit to support CNN’s case after the Trump White House banned reporter Jim Acosta earlier this week.
Acosta was sanctioned Wednesday after a testy exchange with Trump during a lengthy press conference. The White House punished Acosta for “placing his hands on a young woman” after he declined to give up the microphone, but witnesses and video of the incident do not appear to support such a claim.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was suspending Acosta’s hard pass, which allowed him to enter the White House without supervision.
First Amendment legal expert Floyd Abrams told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday that he believes the cable network should sue, and that “it’s a really strong lawsuit.”