CNN was left off the press roster for President Donald Trump’s Saturday trip to Knoxville, Tennessee, with conservative network Real America’s Voice taking the seat assigned to CNN, according to White House guidance issued Friday night. Trump was scheduled to attend the University of Tennessee–University of Texas football game. The reassignment came amid a dispute over press access after the administration barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds the previous week. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly temporarily blocked that ban in a ruling early Thursday. The order addressed the outlets’ White House “hard passes,” which allow access to the grounds, but did not specifically cover duties in the White House press pool or travel aboard Air Force One. The outlets’ lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said Friday that the plaintiffs believe the ruling also applies to pool access. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the flight assignment. CNN belongs to the five-outlet U.S. network video pool, whose members rotate in covering the president and share footage with other news organizations. The seat on the flight had been reserved for a member of that pool; Real America’s Voice is not part of it. The other four pool outlets had stopped participating after CNN, MS NOW and Politico were barred, in a show of solidarity. The pool resumed operating Friday, and CNN had an assignment at an event where Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the National Archives. CNN media analyst Brian Stelter said on X that the network’s credentials for that event had been approved. The dispute is part of a broader conflict over press access during Trump’s second term. In an earlier fight, the administration excluded Associated Press reporters from White House events after the news organization continued using “Gulf of Mexico” in its style guidance while acknowledging Trump’s executive order renaming it the “Gulf of America.” That case is on appeal after a federal judge ruled in the AP’s favor. The White House press pool, established decades ago by the White House Correspondents’ Association, provides rotating on-the-ground coverage of the president and distributes reports and images to news organizations that cannot travel with him. The latest disagreement raises questions about how the court’s temporary order applies to that system and to access aboard presidential travel.