{"id":3185,"date":"2025-02-23T03:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2025-02-23T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T05:30:07","slug":"ap-sues-white-house-staff-over-access-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/ap-sues-white-house-staff-over-access-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"AP sues White House staff over access restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news agency has been barred from attending certain events following the \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 dispute<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Associated Press, one of the world\u2019s oldest news agencies, has filed a lawsuit against three senior White House officials, accusing them of violating press freedoms by barring its reporters from covering President Donald Trump\u2019s activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House has imposed restrictions on AP after it refused to use the term \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 instead of \u2018Gulf of Mexico.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The complaint was submitted on Friday to the US District Court in Washington, DC. The news agency, whose journalists have been part of the White House press pool for over a century, said that it was blocked from press events at the White House and Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence, as well as from traveling on Air Force One.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,\u201d<\/em> AP said in its lawsuit, which names White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt as defendants.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis targeted attack on the AP\u2019s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment. This court should remedy it immediately,\u201d<\/em> the lawsuit said. AP further argued that the ban violates due process and the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the freedom of the press.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On January 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the \u2018Gulf of America.\u2019 AP refused to revise its style guide, stating that it would continue to use the internationally recognized name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences,\u201d<\/em> the agency said in a statement last month.<\/p>\n

The White House responded by telling AP\u2019s presidential correspondent Zeke Miller that the news organization would be barred from certain press areas unless it complied with Trump\u2019s order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Budowich later announced on X that AP would be indefinitely barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One. In an email to AP, Wiles argued that the outlet had \u201cmisused\u201d<\/em> its influence to promote a \u201cdivisive and partisan agenda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to ensure that truth and accuracy are present at the White House every single day,\u201d<\/em> Leavitt has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has often accused media organizations of bias and spreading \u201cfake news\u201d<\/em> about him and his policies. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it\u2019s the Gulf of America,\u201d<\/em> Trump told reporters earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several media organizations, including CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, have signed a letter in support of AP, urging the White House to lift the restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news agency has been barred from attending certain events following the \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 dispute The Associated Press, one of the world\u2019s oldest news agencies, has filed a lawsuit against three senior White House officials, accusing them of violating press freedoms by barring its reporters from covering President Donald Trump\u2019s activities.\u00a0 The White House…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}