A legal showdown between news media outlets CNN, MS NOW, Politico and the Donald Trump administration is looming as the following reports that of a pending lawsuit being filed over a their bar from Whitehouse.

The announcement was made in a joint statement on Monday, days after their reporters were refused entry to White House and stopped from carrying out their jobs.

“This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” the three news organizations said in a joint statement on Monday.
“Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists’ credentials because it objected to our reporting,” the news outlets said. “Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public’s right to independent journalism free from government interference.”

It’s understood that The reporters’ entry badges were disabled on Saturday, a day after President Trump said; he was barring the outlets because of reporting he found to be “fake news.”

The statement also shared that such a harms all media outlets and threatens independent reporting which risks facing a similar fate.

“The ban inflicts an injury on all news media organizations—which now risk a similar fate if they engage in fact-based, independent reporting the President deems insufficiently favorable,” the outlets said in a draft of a request for a temporary restraining order that is expected to be filed on Monday.

The action is the latest in longstanding jostle between Trump Administration and the media who’ve frequently butted heads over various policy moves and responses among other political decisions