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Playboy | July 1967 at Wolfgang's

Yes, Playboy magazine runs articles.

On June 5, a US appeals court ruled that reporters covering the President at the White House are entitled to due process in terms of the availability of their press passes. Specifically, the court upheld a trial court decision that had blocked Trump's effort to punish the Playboy correspondent, Brian Karem.

A free, private, and vigorous press, even sometimes a press that takes an adversarial posture to the powerful. has long been thought a critical deterrent to the excesses of those wielding that power. In the words of Louis Brandeis, "sunshine is the best disinfectant."

This principle helps us understand both the first amendment and the due process, the procedural rightness, of this decision. Whether the dispute will go any further, and whether SCOTUS would do the sensible thing, are of course matters of weather, not of climate.

The Trump administration in particular has often been accused of acting in a quite opaque manner, as if in avoidance of that disinfectant. The suspension of Karem's press pass last summer seemed to corroborate those suspicions.

The court's ruling said that, yes, the White House does have the power to suspend unruly reporters. But the reporter in question must receive fair notice about what conduct will be disciplined. An Ad hoc decision after an exchange of harsh words between Karem and presidential advisor Sebastian Gorka, to the effect that Karem's part in that exchange was "unprofessional," is not sufficient.

That, BTW, is a classic 1965 cover above. Those were the days for HH.

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