Newspaper sues Pentagon over new press rules

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier this week. Now The New York Times is suing the Pentagon over its new press rules. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/TT

The New York Times is suing the Pentagon.

The newspaper claims that the Defense Department is violating journalists' fundamental rights with new restrictions on reporting on the military.

The Defense Department's new media policy violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the newspaper writes.

According to the new rules that went into effect in October, reporters must sign a 21-page form with rules for journalistic activities.

According to the lawsuit, the Pentagon’s new rules “close the Pentagon’s doors—the areas historically open to the press—to news organizations, like the plaintiffs, that investigate and report without fear or favoritism on the actions of the department and its leadership.”

The newspaper wants the court to order the Pentagon to stop enforcing its new rules.

The New York Times stämmer försvarshögkvarteret Pentagon.