AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
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Source: AP
Updated 5:08 PM EST, February 21, 2025
The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the blocking of its journalists. The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., 10 days after the White House began restricting access to the news agency.
The AP says its case is about an unconstitutional effort by the White House to control speech — in this case not changing its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” as President Donald Trump did last month with an executive order.
“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” the AP said in its lawsuit, which names White House chief of staff Susan Wiles, deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich and press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment,” the news agency said. “This court should remedy it immediately.” There was no immediate comment from the administration.
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The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its journalists. The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The AP says its case is about an unconstitutional effort by the White House to control speech — in this case refusing to change its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” as President Donald Trump did last month with an executive order.
“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” the AP said in its lawsuit, which names White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment,” the news agency said. “This court should remedy it immediately.” In stopping the AP from attending press events at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, or flying on Air Force One in the agency’s customary spot, the Trump team directly cited the AP’s decision not to fully follow the president’s renaming.
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plus an iPad that gets the breaking news banners (from the news apps).
I'm just a "newsie", ever since I was a kid (with a 9-volt transistor radio). 
and then having access to CSPAN resulted in me becoming a CSPAN junkie... watching the appropriation markups or any hearings dealing with my agency. That way I would know what my upcoming workload was before getting the "All Hands" messages about it.
And before we even had any computers, we had to wait weeks before we got the printed "All Hands" memo telling us that some Congressional Committee requested that we "provide copies of all info related to (fill in the blank subject) ". We were to give it to a supervisor to box up to send to our headquarters so they could compile and hand over to the Committee! I had known weeks before due to watching the hearing so already checked to see if I had been involved in whatever they were discussing and if I was, I had already gotten the stuff together.
Them were the snail mail days! 