Reading Room Document
Criteria for Denial of White House Press Passes
In this memo, the OLC responded to a request for its views regarding the legal implications of the denials of White House press passes to certain applicants because they were not cleared by the Secret Services for security reasons. The OLC concluded that if a court reached the merits of such a case, it would require some intermediate version of a hearing, not a full adversarial hearing, but “notice of the specific charges and an opportunity to respond.”
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit