The U.S. Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced Monday.

An area of the Pentagon known as “Correspondents’ Corridor” that reporters have used for decades to cover the U.S. military will close immediately, department spokesperson Sean Parnell said. Journalists will eventually be able to work from an “annex” outside the building, which he said “will be available when ready.” He offered no detail about how long that will take.

The Pentagon Press Association said the announcement “is a clear violation of the letter and spirit of last week’s ruling.”

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    8 hours ago

    Any ruling from anywhere by any judge is automatically ignored by these fascist thugs. Either the constitution needs to close a loophole so this never happens again or maybe nobody who can do anything about it cares. The future will answer that question (if any of us are still alive after the global thermonuclear war).