USD Magazine Summer 2019

resident Trump strode to the lectern in the East Room for a news conference with the White House press corps; Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, was in his customary front-row seat. Some 2,600 miles to the west, Ted Boutrous ’87 (JD) was watching the television in his office 54 stories above the streets of Los Angeles. The stage was set for one of the most remarkable legal challenges in the nation’s history: the president of the United States as defendant in a lawsuit alleging infringement of the First Amendment rights of freedom of the press. P