Thread by @PaulaChertok

“Let’s get back to work”—Jim @Acosta thanks colleagues for their support, in a brief statement outside the courthouse where a judge just ORDERED WH to RESTORE his press pass, granting @CNN’s TRO on due process (Fifth Amendment) grounds. First Amendment issues to be decided later

Trump-appointed Judge orders White House to return CNN's @Acosta's press pass, ruling WH violated his right to due process. So WH must have rules before it can say the press violated them. (Too limited, imho. WH's First Amendment arguments were untenable.) cnn.com/2018/11/16/med…

PEAK Propaganda White House! They flatly misstate today’s court victory for CNN ordering the WH to reinstate @Acosta’s press pass b/c the WH violated the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment. The Court didnt rule on 1Am—let alone “made clear there is no absolute First Amendment right”

CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim @Acosta is back at work, reporting from the WH, after a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the WH reinstate his press pass, holding that denying him access was a violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment of Constitution.