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Another area where the POTUS is setting up a constitutional challenge with the judicial branch:

"The Associated Press said in a court filing on Wednesday that the Trump administration had defied a federal judge’s order requiring the administration to restore the wire service’s full access to the White House."

"Lawyers for the The A.P. wrote that a White House spokesman had told A.P. reporters on Monday that they would continue to be excluded from the press pool — a small, rotating group of journalists who cover certain events in confined spaces at the White House — because the “case is ‘ongoing.’”

"For the last two months, The A.P.’s access to President Trump has been sharply curtailed over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, the name that Mr. Trump designated for the body of water."

"In a temporary order last week, Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., said the exclusion violated the First Amendment’s free-speech clause and instructed the White House to restore The A.P.’s access “immediately.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-ap-white-house-access.html