Journalist Simon Ateba has filed a federal lawsuit against White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the Secret Service, accusing them of unconstitutionally yanking his press badge after a series of press briefing disruptions.
Mr. Ateba, a reporter for Today News Africa, says in the lawsuit that the White House’s new rules for granting a press badge violate the First and Fifth amendments of the Constitution.
In May the White House unveiled new rules for press badges, known as hard passes. It marked the first time in history the White House spelled out requirements for a hard pass and potential offenses that could result in a press badge being revoked. The new rules were adopted just weeks after a March 20 briefing in which Mr. Ateba accused Ms. Jean-Pierre of “making a mockery of the First Amendment” by entering the briefing room with the cast of the Apple TV+ sitcom “Ted Lasso.”
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