--- title: Trump Responds to CNN Lawsuit Over Jim Acosta WH Press Pass description: The White House defended revoking the pass of CNN's Jim Acosta, arguing reporters don’t have a Constitutional right to enter. canonical: https://time.com/5454502/white-house-response-cnn-lawsuit/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-14T16:51:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:02:30.544Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House: No 'First Amendment Right' for Reporters to Enter Building in CNN Lawsuit og:description: Fox News President also said his network supports CNN in its legal effort og:url: https://time.com/5454502/white-house-response-cnn-lawsuit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8f0dc72a3ca02f/69893f1bfb4eac38b189836c/trump-acosta.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: trump-acosta og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House: No 'First Amendment Right' for Reporters to Enter Building in CNN Lawsuit twitter:description: Fox News President also said his network supports CNN in its legal effort twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8f0dc72a3ca02f/69893f1bfb4eac38b189836c/trump-acosta.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Says Journalists Don't Have 'First Amendment Right' to Enter Building in Legal Response to CNN Lawsuit > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump gets into a heated exchange with CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta as NBC correspondent Peter Alexander looks on during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2018. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [Andrew Harris and David Voreacos / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Andrew Harris and David Voreacos / Bloomberg Contributor Nov 14, 2018 4:51 PM UTC (Bloomberg) — The Trump Administration defended its decision to revoke the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, arguing reporters don’t have a Constitutional right to access the White House. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed a response Wednesday to CNN’s lawsuit hours ahead of a hearing in federal court in Washington, where the network sued Trump and top aides over the decision to pull Acosta’s White House credentials after he clashed with the president at a Nov. 7 news conference. “No journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House,” Justice Department lawyers argued in a 28-page filing, adding the president has broad discretion to decide who gets press passes. “The president is generally free to open the White House doors to political allies, in the hopes of furthering a particular agenda, and he is equally free to invite in only political foes, in the hopes of convincing them of his position,” the lawyers said in the filing. “The First Amendment simply does not regulate these decisions.” The filing ratchets up the dispute between the news media and Trump, who has repeatedly denigrated reporters who question his actions, focusing his ire on CNN. The network said Trump engaged in an “unabashed attempt to censor the press” by banning Acosta, who has gained notoriety for his aggressive questioning of the president. Fox News President Jay Wallace said Wednesday his network supports CNN in its legal effort to regain Acosta’s credentials and will file court documents opposing the Trump administration’s decision. > [](https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1062738395812818945) In its lawsuit CNN claimed that Trump’s administration violated Acosta’s due process rights by revoking his press credentials without warning and false claims that he placed his hands on a White House intern who tried to take his microphone during the news conference. CNN’s lawsuit threatens to throw its owner, AT&T Inc., and the Trump administration back in court just months after the two sides squared off before a judge over whether AT&T can buy Time Warner Inc. AT&T won the case, though the Justice Department has appealed the decision. The case is Cable News Network Inc. v. Donald J. 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