The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday upheld a Pentagon policy requiring that all journalists in the facility be escorted by government personnel, staying a lower court order that had blocked the policy.
The 2–1 ruling held that the government was likely to succeed on the core First Amendment claims at issue in the case. It lifted a lower court order that had blocked the policy, though this could still be reversed as litigation proceeds.
Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate applauded the ruling.
“The NYT reporters do not have a First Amendment right to freely roam the halls of the Pentagon,” Schumate wrote in a post on X….
DC Circuit Court Allows Pentagon Policy Requiring Escorts for Journalists for Time Being
