Among the rules: Reporters must ask one question of the president at news conferences but can follow up with another if the president chooses. A reporter must then “yield the floor,” including giving up a microphone. Failure to abide by these rules, the White House letter said, will result in revocation of a journalist’s White House pass.
The letter prompted CNN to end its litigation against the White House.
The administration’s letter to CNN came after its attorney, Theodore Boutrous, objected to the White House’s threat to remove Acosta’s pass after a restraining order expires. He wrote that such an action amounted to “retroactive due process.”
In a separate letter to Shine
