TWH Press Ban: It's Not Over, Until The Judge Says It's Over

President Donald Trump's administration complied on Thursday with a judge's order to restore White House access to three media ​outlets he had banned last week — CNN, Politico, and MS NOW — but litigation over the ban is not over yet.

Here is what ‌to know about the next steps in the lawsuit filed by the three media outlets. according to Reuters.

DID THE JUDGE ISSUE A FINAL RULING?

No. The judge assigned to the case, US District Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, issued a temporary order that reinstated the outlets’ access for 14 days while their legal challenge proceeded.

In his ruling, Kelly said legal precedents make clear that once White House press credentials ​are issued to journalists, they have a right to "notice and an opportunity to be heard" before those credentials are revoked.

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Kelly, a Trump-appointed judge, said ​the news outlets were likely to succeed on their claim that this constitutional right to due process was violated.

But Kelly ⁠did not reach a primary issue in the case: a claim by the news outlets that the ban violated the rights to freedom of speech and ​freedom of the press in the US Constitution's First Amendment.

Kelly said it was not necessary to resolve that issue, since the due process claim was sufficient grounds to ​grant a temporary restraining order halting Trump's ban.

Kelly set a September 28 deadline for the outlets to request a follow-up ruling, known as a preliminary injunction, which would extend his block on Trump's ban for the duration of the case.