Laurence Tribe: ‘The White House Press Pass Is a Form of Liberty ... to Gather News and Advance the Liberty Interests of the People’

RUSH EXCERPT:

TRIBE: “A press pass is not just a piece of property that you frame like a trophy and hang up what the district court said in its order at around one in the morning was that a binding precedent of the D.C. Circuit dating to 1977, which is binding on this court and which followed Supreme Court precedent establishes that a White House press pass is a form of liberty. It confers liberty on reporters to gather the news and advance the liberty interests of the people. That liberty was denied, even if the press passes were supposedly lying in wait somewhere where the reporters couldn’t find them, the press pass notwithstanding, these people were told, get out of here. You may represent the interests of Americans in hearing all the news that’s fit to print or fit to cover. But we don’t care. Even though the judge has ordered us to let you in to protect your liberty. My goodness.”