if he blocked CNN as an entity, that's clearly a First Amendment issue...but blocking a specific reporter?
I don't know if that's a First Amendment issue.

if they ban a reporter because they ask questions they don't like, that's a first amendment problem.

if they ban a reporter because they refuse to shower, that's no problem.

first a bogus issue, then later that he refused to give up the microphone.

They won't admit it's because of questions they don't like, then again they can simply refuse to ever call on him again if they want to.

he gave up the microphone, just not immediately upon an unidentified person trying to grab it from him without asking. hard to call that something that should get someone banned from the premises. any reasonable judge would easily see right through that.

but of course there are also partisan right-wing judges as well....


you're right, of course they can choose to call only on "safe" questioners, plants even. that quickly becomes obvious, and in normal times the media wouldn't let an administration get away with that. these days, who knows.

if they were afraid of losing their WH assignment.

and that's pretty clearly what happened here.

even if you buy the ridiculous argument that it was about his "behavior", keep in mind that the white house started the brouhaha by rudely trying to grab the microphone away from him, which itself is a silencing act and bad behavior. whatever "behavior" they object to came only after they tried to silence him.

that's a real problem in a first amendment case.

He wants the power to determine what is and isn't in the news.

That's bullshit.