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Judge rejects immediately restoring AP's access to White House but urges government to reconsider

By MATT SEDENSKY - Feb 24, 2025, 08:26 PM ET
Last Updated - Feb 24, 2025, 11:13 PM EST
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Pedestrians walk past the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

A federal judge has refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not shown it had suffered irreparable harm in the matter

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden’s decision was only for the moment, however. He told attorneys for the Trump administration and the AP that the issue required more exploration before ruling.

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McFadden said the AP had not proven harm requiring an immediate restraining order. But he cautioned the White House that the law wasn’t on its side in barring AP over continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico, not simply the “Gulf of America” as Trump decreed in an executive order.

“It seems pretty clearly viewpoint discrimination,” McFadden told Brian Hudak, a government attorney.

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