White House Bars AP from Oval Office Events Despite Court Order – ryan

Despite a Court Order, A Reporter and Photographer from the Associated Press Were Barred from An Oval Office Conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and His Countpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.

Last Week’s Federal Court Decision Forbidding the Trump Administration from Punishing the AP for Refusus to rename the gulf of mexico was to take effect monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news Outlet over it needs to change anything UNIL THose appeals are ejausted.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Set A Thursday Hearing on Trump’s Request That Any Changes Be Delayed Cases is Reviewed. The ap is fighting for more access as soon as Possible.

Later Monday, Two Ap Photographers Were admitted to an event Honoring Ohio State’s Championship Football Team on the More Spacious South Lawn. A Text Reporter was tourned Away.

Mid-February, AP Reporters and Photographers Have Been Blocked From Attending Events in the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump Frequently Addresses Journists, and on Air Force One. The ap has seen sporadic Access Elsewhere, and Regularly Covers White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt’s Briefings. Leavitt is one of the administration officers Named in the ap’suit.

The Discipate FROM AP’S DECISION NOT TO FOLLOW The President’s EXECUTIVE ORDER TO RENAME THE GULF OF MEXICO, ALTHOUGH APS CITE Trump’s wish that it was CALLED the GUMF of America. The ap argued – and US District Judge Trevor N. McFadden AGREED LAST WEEK – That the Government Cannot The News Organization for Exercise Its Right to Free Speech.

McFadden on Friday Had rejetted Trump’s Request for More delay in implementing the ruling; Now the president is nansing an appeals Court for the Same Thing.

“We were expert the White House to Restore Ap’s Participation in the (White House Press) Pool as of Today, as provided in the injunction Order,” Ap Spokeswoman Lauren Said Monday.

The Extent of Ap’S Future Access Remains Uncertain, with the Court Decision.

UNIL BEING BLOCKED BY Trump, AP has traditionally always had a reporter and Photographer Among the Small Group of Journists Invited Into the Oval Office. McFadden did not order that to be restored, only that no news organization should be shut out Because the President Objects to Its News Decisions – Under a principle “Viewpoint Discruption.”

“No Other News Organization in the United States Receives the Level of Guaranteed Access Previously bestowed up,” The Administration Argted in Court Papers Over the Weekend. “The AP May Have Grown Accountomed to Its Favored Status, but the Constitution does Not Require that Such Status Endure in Perpetuity.”

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David Bauder Writes About Media for the AP. Follow Him at http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social