The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a new press access policy, an appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a new press access policy, an appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit isn’t the final decision in The New York Times’ lawsuit against the Pentagon. But the panel’s majority opinion said the Trump administration is likely to succeed in showing that the policy’s escort requirement is legally valid. The panel granted the government’s request to suspend an April 9 decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman, who ruled that the Defense Department was violating an earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters. Last fall, the Pentagon required reporters
