A federal judge on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration's decision to revoke CNN, MS NOW and Politico's White House access, saying the government appeared not to have followed the required process before barring the outlets.

In Sherrill v. Knight from 1977, the court ruled that the denial of a press pass implicated a First Amendment liberty interest. That interest, the court wrote, “undoubtedly qualifies as liberty which may not be denied without due process of law under the fifth amendment.”

The American Bar Association (ABA) recently submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, contending that the Fifth Amendment necessitates individualized procedural safeguards, including bond hearings,

A lawyer for three news outlets challenging President Trump’s attempt to bar them from the White House told a federal judge on Wednesday that the president’s repeated statemen