Associated Press seeks full appeals court hearing on access to Trump administration events
Source: AP
Updated 8:12 PM EDT, June 10, 2025
The Associated Press on Tuesday asked for a hearing before the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, seeking to overturn a three-judge panel’s ruling that allowed the Trump administration to continue blocking the AP’s access to some presidential events — a four-month case that has raised questions about what level of journalistic access to the presidency the First Amendment permits.
Three judges of that court on Friday, in a 2-1 decision, said it was OK for President Donald Trump to continue keeping AP journalists out of the Oval Office or other small events in retaliation for the news outlet’s decision not to follow his lead in changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name.
He had sought a pause of a lower court’s ruling in the AP’s favor in April that the administration was improperly punishing the news organization for the content of its speech.
“The decision of the appellate panel to pause the district court’s order allows the White House to discriminate and retaliate over words it does not like, a violation of the First Amendment,” AP spokesperson Patrick Maks said. “We are seeking a rehearing of this decision by the full appellate court because an essential American principle is at stake.”
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