Judge blocks the Trump administration's reporter ban, so we'll see how that goes

It must be very difficult to be Donald Trump. You try your best to run the country the way you run your many businesses, and suddenly the entire world gets really edgy. Everyone in your orbit is so obsequious you can’t tell if what you say goes because you are a very smart fellow or because everyone in your cabinet has the spinal fortitude of an especially shriveled earthworm. Why doesn’t everyone just do what I say? you might think to yourself as a subservient aide hands you a sippy cup of Diet Coke. Take those very mean, very angry reporters at CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, who reported everything Donald Trump was saying/doing every waking hour of his life! It’s intolerable; why can’t Donald Trump ban the press from his White House pool and replace it with, say, a YouTube live stream promoted with SpongeBob SquarePants and Batman?

Well, there is that pesky First Amendment that enshrines the power of a free press to cover the doings of every leader of the free world elected into office in these United States Of America, for starters. Surely, this is what prompted a late Thursday morning ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocking Trump’s journalist ban that took effect on September 19. Judge Timothy J. Kelly (per The New York Times) said that the ban was “likely unconstitutional” and ordered the administration to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” press credentials to journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. In his ruling, Kelly also poured water on the administration’s insistence that having outlets like CNN hanging around the press pool, with their microphones and cameras and earnest journalists asking pain-in-the-ass questions about “accountability” and whatnot, were antithetical to national security—a ruling which, y’know, is technically something the administration is obliged to obey.