Our client is Playboy’s senior White House correspondent, Brian Karem, an award-winning journalist who once went to jail for over two weeks to protect a confidential source and who has covered the White House under six presidents. When Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham suspended his “hard pass” on August 16, it had an immediate and irreparable impact on Brian: It deprived him of his First Amendment liberty and prevented him from doing his job covering President Trump and his administration.

But we knew this case wasn’t just about Mr. Karem. It has widespread implications because the Trump White House is trying to wield the press-credentialing process as a weapon to punish reporters whose coverage they don’t like and is seeking, more broadly, to chill vigilant reporting on the presidency.

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