Robert Sherrill v. H. Stuart Knight, Director, United States Secret Service

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• noting that “the applicant is required to have a pass to the House and Senate galleries because this verifies the ‘professional credentials’ of the applicant”
• recognizing a “compelling, even . . . overwhelming interest” in the President’s safety (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that denial of hard pass resulted in “exclusion . . . from White House press facilities”
• concerning the denial of a hard pass for security reasons that resulted in “exclusion . . . from White House press facilities”
• requiring White House to provide notice, opportunity to rebut, and a written decision when denying a journalist’s hard pass application, and to publish or make publicly known the standard it employs for determining whether a journalist will obtain a press pass
• “[T]he interest of a bona fide Washington correspondent in obtaining a White House press pass is protected by the first amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).