Associated Press Warns Of Trump White House Ban In Latest Court Filing: “The Constitution Does Not Allow The Government To Control Speech”
deadline.comThe Associated Press emphasized that the White House ban on its access to presidential events extends beyond pool opportunities in limited spaces but to larger events open to all credentialed journalists.
In its latest court filing, the news organization’s legal team wrote that the “White House has gone so far as to ban an AP photographer from covering the arrival of Air Force One at Palm Beach InternationalAirport, even though the event was open to other credentialed media, and despite there being no space constraints whatsoever on the airport tarmac.” Read the AP’s latest filing on the Trump ban.
The AP sued Trump administration officials last month after its reporters and later photographers were banned from the press pool, meaning that they no longer had access to Oval Office events, as well as other presidential appearances in and out of the White House.
Donald Trump and others on his team made clear that the AP was being frozen out because it failed to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
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