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Federal judge finds Pentagon is violating court order to restore access to reporters
The ruling says the Pentagon’s revised policy still violates journalists’ rights and had left 56 outlets under tighter access rules.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore reporter access, effectively blocking the agency's revised press policy issued last month.
- Following Friedman's March ruling, the Pentagon implemented new restrictions including mandatory escorts for journalists and closed the Correspondents Corridor, claiming these measures complied with the court's order.
- Friedman wrote the department "cannot simply reinstate an unlawful policy under the guise of taking new action," while striking down its classification of press access as a "privilege" rather than a "right."
- Friedman emphasized the case concerns the Secretary of Defense's efforts to dictate information received by the public, describing the department's actions as an attempt to "control the message.
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Pete Hegseth gets humiliated in court as judge exposes his underhanded tactics
A federal judge has ruled for the second time in a month that the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, violated journalists’ constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman found that the Department of Defense had defied his earlier March 20 order by rolling out a revised press policy that was, in the judge’s view, just as unconstitutional as the original. According to The Daily Beast, the trouble began in October 2025, when …
In the USA, the competent federal judge has instructed the Ministry of Defence to restore unrestricted press access.
Hegseth must open Pentagon to reporters, judge rules
What happenedA federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday threw out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s revised effort to restrict press access at the Pentagon, saying the Defense Department “cannot simply reinstate an unlawful policy under the guise of taking ‘new’ action.” Suppression of “political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy,” U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman wrote in his opinion, siding with The New York Times for t…
Pentagon violating court order on press access
The Pentagon has failed to comply with a court order to restore press access, a federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting new restrictions put in place by the department after its prior rules were deemed unconstitutional. As part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by the New York Times, the court ruled in March that the Pentagon's changes last year to press access - which saw credentials from a host of prominent outlets stripped - violated the Constitu…
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Times of IndiaUS judge orders Pentagon to restore press access
WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge in Washington ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon is hampering journalists in defiance of a court order that required it to restore access to credentialed reporters covering the seat of U.S. military power. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the Defense Department must comply with his earlier order that sided with The New York Times and other news organizations challenging restrictions imposed on them last year. “Th…
Judge rejects Hegseth’s second attempt to restrict reporters at Pentagon
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday rejected an attempt by the Pentagon to impose a new set of restrictions on journalists who hold credentials to cover the military complex, in another blow to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempts to control the media.
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