The New York Times urged a federal judge on Friday to order the Pentagon to cease its requirement that journalists be escorted within the building, arguing the policy was clear First Amendment retaliation. @ryan_knappy courthousenews.com/orwellian…

UPDATE: New York Times files additional motion challenging Pete Hegseth's press restrictions at Pentagon, calling requirements "retaliatory, arbitrary, unconstitutional" But check this out: the Times says it's been landing more scoops *after* Hegseth tried to clamp down ====>

Breaking: The New York Times has filed a second lawsuit against the Defense Department, this time challenging the escort requirement for journalists covering the Pentagon.

Breaking: The New York Times has filed a second lawsuit against the Pentagon, asking a judge to strike down as unconstitutional Secretary Pete Hegseth's requirement that journalists accessing the building be accompanied by a government escort. washingtonpost.com/business/…

The New York Times filed its 2nd lawsuit against the Pentagon. This suit targets the interim press policy and names Hegseth's lawyer Timothy Parlatore, whom it describes as an architect of the new press policy, among the defendants. wsj.com/us-news/law/new-york… via @WSJ

New York Times files new Pentagon suit, challenging escort requirement - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/business/…

This is such an incredibly good book.

Pentagon violated court order on press access, judge rules in sharp rebuke. Via ⁦@ScottNover⁩ washingtonpost.com/business/…

Breaking news: A judge found that the Defense Department’s revised “interim” policy unconstitutionally sidestepped his earlier ruling. That ruling found that the department’s press policy violated the rights of the New York Times and one of its reporters. wapo.st/4cxJnam

Breaking News: A federal judge rejected an attempt by the Pentagon to impose a new set of restrictions on journalists. nyti.ms/4sAjA6s

JUST IN: Judge Friedman has rejected the Pentagon’s revised press policy, saying it flouted his earlier order and represents a bid by Hegseth and the Trump admin to “dictate” coverage, what he calls “the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin…

New ruling from federal judge rejects Pentagon's attempt to revise media restrictions following an earlier, adverse court ruling: nytimes.com/2026/04/09/busin…

Ted Boutrous, the lawyer for the NYT, NPR & PBS talks about his key wins against the Trump admin and why he was forced to file a motion to compel against the Pentagon. @BoutrousTed @MeidasTouch

Just shipped a special Saturday edition of @ReliableSources full of 💯 weekend reads: cnn.it/4sZCYL8 Now Reliable is on spring break; back in your inboxes and feeds on April 13.

Yesterday morning, Judge Paul Friedman held a hearing on the New York Times’s motion to compel the government to comply with his order to restore press access to the Pentagon. @mollylroberts reports from the courtroom:

The New York Times’s lawyer David McCraw didn’t worry that suing the Pentagon over press access would make the newspaper more of a target: “I don’t think we could be more of a target.” Read the full Q&A with McCraw and @BoutrousTed: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-r…

My @washingtonpost interview with David McCraw and @BoutrousTed about the NYT suit against the Pentagon ⬇️

Trump’s Media-Bashing Is Coming Back to Bite Him in Court nytimes.com/2026/04/02/busin… via @NYTimes

Breaking: Judge Randolph Moss struck down a portion of Trump's executive order on NPR and PBS, saying that cutting off funding based on coverage is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and retaliation, violating their First Amendment rights.

A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump’s executive order to end funding for NPR and PBS public media violates the First Amendment. The judge wrote that the First Amendment right to free speech “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type. It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/jud…