The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments today in the Associated Press’s dispute with President Trump over access to presidential events.
The court heard arguments in an appeal by Trump’s administration of a judge’s April ruling that he unlawfully retaliated against the AP because it refused in its news coverage to call the Gulf of Mexico by the new name: the Gulf of America.
Justice Department lawyer Yaakov Roth told the court that the AP does not have a right under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections for press freedom to what the White House has called special access to non-public areas.
