Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the restoration of access to the White House for the networks CNN, MS NOW and the newspaper Politico, after they were banned from the official facilities by order of President Donald Trump.

In a ruling issued in the early hours of this Thursday and to which EFE had access, the judge considers it likely that the ban occurred without "adequate due process" for the affected media outlets, and orders the immediate return of the press credentials that were withdrawn from them last Friday.

This is an emergency order with temporary effect, which will be in force for 14 days, that is, until next October 8, and the access of those media outlets to the White House must be maintained at least "until this court issues another order or until" the measure announced this Thursday expires.

The judge in the U.S. District Court for Washington DC thus sides with the media outlets banned by Trump, which had requested that temporary emergency order while the merits of the case are examined.

The argument of the affected journalists — a total of 78, according to Politico — is that the withdrawal of their credentials constituted retaliation for the content of their reporting and a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression.

The decision comes hours after a hearing in which the judge questioned this Wednesday why Trump withdrew the press passes without first establishing clear rules and without timely notification.

"The general rule is that people must be provided with notice and an opportunity to be heard before the Government deprives them of a constitutionally protected interest," Kelly wrote in his ruling.

The affected media outlets did not receive notification about the possibility of appealing Trump's decision until this Wednesday, five days after their credentials were confiscated following a sudden announcement by the president on his social media on Friday.

The judge also considers that there are no facts demonstrating the Trump administration's argument that "the revocation of the plaintiffs' credentials would protect" U.S. national security, and recalls that, when he announced the ban, the president focused more on the media's alleged "negativity" toward him.

Trump's ban has generated a great uproar and has led to the decision by other television networks to suspend joint coverage of the president's events in the rotation system known as the "pool," and has constrained the dissemination of images of the president during the UN General Assembly.