Appeals Court Partially Allows White House to Restrict AP’s Access

A district court had blocked the ban after the Associated Press sued over an alleged First Amendment violation.
Appeals Court Partially Allows White House to Restrict AP’s Access
The White House in Washington on May 21, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Sam Dorman
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to ban the Associated Press from certain spaces after it refused to change its stylebook to reflect the name change for the Gulf of America, previously named the Gulf of Mexico.

In a 2–1 decision, the court granted a stay of a lower court’s injunction pending appeal. It was a partial stay, applying to the Oval Office, Air Force One, Mar-a-Lago, and similar spaces. However, it declined to halt part of the injunction applying to the East Room of the White House.

Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
Sam Dorman is a Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for The Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at @EpochofDorman.
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