The New York Times is seeking a new order that compels Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s team to rescind a set of press access restrictions that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional last week.
In a filing Tuesday afternoon, the Times accused the Pentagon of “contemptuously defying” U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman’s ruling last week, which found that new restrictions on access to the complex were vague and violated the First Amendment. Among other things, the policy threatened to revoke reporters’ credentials if they solicited unauthorized information, whether classified or unclassified.
On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell unveiled a revised policy that replaced the term “solicitation” with “intentional inducement of unauthorized disclosure.”
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But the Times attorneys, including Ted Boutrous and Katie Townsend, wrote in their filing that the revisions are actually new restrictions. They said that the new language would merely be
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