THE PRESS PROTECTS ITS MONOPOLY, WITH HELP FROM THE STATE: Standing Committee of Correspondents: SCOTUSblog Not Deserving of Accreditation.

The journalists in charge of Capitol Hill press credentials for daily publications are standing firm on their decision to deny SCOTUSblog’s application, stating that the publisher fails the “fundamental test of editorial independence,” primarily because he and his law firm argue cases before the high court.

During a brief Monday morning meeting, Standing Committee of Correspondents for the Daily Press Chairwoman Siobhan Hughes, a Capitol Hill reporter for the Wall Street Journal, asked the four fellow journalists on the committee if there was a motion to reconsider the heavily scrutinized April decision.

Sorry, but I don’t see very much independence from the rest of the journolist herd.