President Donald Trump just lost the same argument that Richard Nixon lost as president 55 years ago about trying to stymie unflattering media coverage. The bruised emotions of a thin-skinned politician, the legal precedent goes, do not amount to a national security threat.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly ruled on Sept. 24 that Trump must restore – for now – access to the White House for journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico.

Trump last week revoked White House media credentials from those journalists while bellyaching about how they cover him. From the start, Trump made clear that he craves favorable coverage but wasn’t getting it.

Trump’s lawyers later – too late, it turns out – tried to rewrite his gripes about media coverage into some sort of threat against national security after CNN, MS Now and Politico sued to overturn the ban.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, it didn’t make sense to the judge either.

This won't be the end of Trump's media tantrums

Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017, sounded skeptical of Trump's media ban during a hearing in Washington, DC on Sept. 23, and then rejected claims of “security concerns” in his ruling, a temporary restraining order in place now for 14 days. His........

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