, pool coverage underscores efforts to create a public record of government actions, even if every news group can't be accommodated in a particular physical space.

The Constitution  protects the liberty and property interests that news organizations and White House reporters have in their press credentials and the access those credentials afford them to cover the White House for the benefit of the public,  MS NOW, CNN and Politico alleged in their legal filing.  No official can deprive Plaintiffs of those interests on a whim - with no notice, no process, and no warning - as the President did here. 

A federal judge has issued a temporary block on Trump's ban, but the matter is still enmeshed in the courts.

NBC News recently took over coordination of White House pool coverage from Fox News, as part of a rotation that changes every three months, according to two people familiar with the matter.