Updated ~12:45 p.m. ET: The compliance fight under Judge Timothy Kelly’s 14-day due-process TRO shifted at midday when multi-outlet reports said the three national outlets’ reporters were allowed back onto White House grounds around noon — just before Kelly’s 12:30 p.m. ET deadline to answer a noncompliance notice. Deadline and MS NOW detail CNN and MS NOW correspondents returning (Barrón-López on-air: badge returned); The Independent reports CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were allowed inside and cites a White House official’s court account of morning badge reinstatement and a ~9:55 a.m. drop at the press entrance.

Kelly’s opinion had found a likely Fifth Amendment process failure and questioned national-security rationales layered onto a Truth Social ban. Press advocates cast the TRO as a First Amendment–adjacent win even though due process, not the First Amendment claim, carried the order. Midday wires replace the still-blocked beat with confirmed restore — not a confirmed formal stay.

Accounts agree access was restored before the 12:30 deadline after a White House court confirmation; they diverge on Politico’s full-team certainty in early restore write-ups and on whether morning denials were lag or defiance. TROs remain generally unappealable with expedited preliminary-injunction briefing ahead; no ≥2-outlet confirmation of a stay or circuit filing as of this update.

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