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MS NOW, CNN and Politico are set to sue President Donald Trump on Monday morning, asking a federal judge to overturn his total ban on their journalists working from the White House.

Reporters from all three outlets were denied entry Saturday, one day after Trump announced the restriction.

The planned civil complaint calls the ban an unconstitutional attack on press freedom.

“This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles,” the lawsuit says.

The outlets argue that the ban has severely impeded their ability to cover Trump and his administration.

Their complaint says press credentials and the access those credentials provide constitute protected liberty and property interests that cannot be revoked without notice or process.

The lawsuit alleges that Trump violated the Due Process Clause by giving the outlets no advance notice or opportunity to challenge his decision.

It also accuses the president of retaliating against protected newsgathering and speech in violation of the First Amendment.

A separate First Amendment claim argues that the administration barred the organizations from a nonpublic forum for unlawful reasons.

The complaint identifies viewpoint discrimination, including action based on the outlets’ perceived ideology, opinion or perspective.

Trump announced the ban Friday on Truth Social, accusing the organizations of publishing fiction and lies about him.

He also warned, “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow,” while citing what he called cumulative stories from the three organizations.

After the lawsuit was announced Monday, Trump rejected the claim that his administration was targeting press freedom.

“The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Trump said the White House was instead mounting an assault on what he described as fake news.

He called it a threat to national security, although he had not previously cited national security to justify the ban and provided no examples supporting that claim.

In a joint statement, the outlets said they were acting to protect their First Amendment rights and the principle that government does not control what the press reports or publishes.

They said the White House revoked their journalists’ credentials because it objected to their reporting.

The organizations plan to request a temporary restraining order preventing Trump and other defendants from continuing to enforce the ban.

They will also ask the court to require immediate restoration of their hard pass credentials, which provide reporters access to the White House.

The defendants include Trump, assistant for communications Steven Cheung, White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles and Secret Service Director Sean Curran. The plaintiffs include the three outlets and reporters Akayla Gardner of MS NOW, Betsy Klein of CNN and Cheyenne Haslett of Politico.

All three reporters were denied entry Saturday, and a Secret Service officer took their hard passes, according to the suit.

On Sunday night, the White House also removed CNN from its scheduled role as the pool network for Monday’s White House travel pool.

That pool was scheduled to accompany Trump to New York for his visit to the United Nations General Assembly.

The complaint cites CNN’s removal from the schedule as an example of the irreparable harm allegedly caused by the ban.

The White House and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment about the lawsuit.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he did not know much about the matter, but suggested perceived bias had made legacy media unpopular.

The case is set to be filed in the same court where The Associated Press has a pending lawsuit over restrictions on its journalists.

Judge Trevor McFadden ruled in April 2025 that Trump’s partial ban on the AP violated the First Amendment and ordered equal access to certain White House spaces and Air Force One.

The White House instead said it would abolish the wire pool that had included the AP, Bloomberg and Reuters.

A three judge appeals panel blocked McFadden’s ruling from taking effect by a 2 to 1 vote in June 2025 while Trump pursued an appeal, which remains undecided.

Trump told reporters Friday that imposing the latest ban was worthwhile even if a judge overturned it.

“I think it’s good to point it out, whether it survives or doesn’t,” he said.

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