A federal judge on Monday denied the Associated Press’s emergency request to restore full access to Trump administration White House press pool events but ordered an expedited review of the case, citing the serious constitutional questions involved.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of President Donald Trump, declined to grant the news outlet’s temporary restraining order against the Trump administration but acknowledged the urgency of the matter, setting another hearing for the case on March 20. The First Amendment dispute stems from Trump’s recent executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and the Associated Press’s refusal to adopt the gulf’s new name.
The White House communications office released a statement after McFadden’s decision, saying, “As we have said from the beginning, asking the President of the United…
