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Politics● LowSep 21 · Sep 21, 2026, 4:27 PM

Lawsuit over White House media ban assigned to Trump nominee

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · North America

The judge who will decide whether President Trump constitutionally banned a trio of media outlets from the White House is one of the president’s nominees — and he’s no stranger to Trump’s clashes with the press. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated to the federal bench in the nation’s capital during his first…

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