The Trump administration is appealing a court ruling that it must restore the Associated Press’ access to the White House “immediately.”
AP was banned from the White House in February for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” and on Tuesday the outlet won an important court victory in the lawsuit it filed in response when U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, a Trump appointee, ruled that the ban violates the first amendment.
“Under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists — be it to the Oval Office, the East Room or elsewhere — it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints,” McFadden wrote.