Judge US raises the White House restrictions on the Associated Press

The US Judge ordered Trump administration to resume the Association Press Access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term “Bay of America”.

On Tuesday, the district judge Turki McFadden said that the restriction of the administration in journalists of the AP “contradicts the first correction”, which guarantees freedom of expression.

The dispute arose when the AP refused to accept the renaming of the Gulf administration into the “Bay of America” ​​in its coverage, after the executive order of President Donald Trump.

The prohibition meant that the AP could not access the press media in the White House, as well as the Air Force.

Judge McFadden, who was appointed Trump during his first term, Also stopped in the implementation of the ruling By Sunday to allow the administration’s lawyers to appeal the time.

“The court simply states that as part of the first amendment, if the government opens its doors to some journalists – whether it is to the Oval Office, the Eastern Hall or elsewhere – it cannot close these doors from other journalists from their point of view,” he wrote in his ruling. “The Constitution requires no less.”

The AP claimed that the administration violated its constitutional right to freedom of speech, limiting access from the disagreement regarding the language of the agency.

In February, Judge Macfaden refused to immediately resume access to the presidential events.

After the ruling on Tuesday, the press secretary of the AP Lauren stated that the agency was “satisfied with the court’s decision”.

“Today’s ruling confirms the fundamental right of the press and the public to speak freely without repayment of the government. This is freedom guaranteed for all Americans in the US Constitution,” she said in a statement.

The resolution also welcomed other organizations that criticized the initial restrictions on the AP.

“This is a thorough, well-founded opinion that correctly describes the exclusion of the Association Press Press as retaliation, based on the point of view and unconstitutional,” said Jeamel Jofer, Executive Director of the Knight Institute at the Colombian University.

The AP sued three high -ranking Trump administration officials – a press secretary Carolyn Levit, the Chief of Staff Susi Wilz and the Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budovich – saying that the restrictions were illegal and violated by the press freedom.

The Trump administration claimed that the Associated Press was not entitled to “special access” to the president.

Shortly after the entry to the post in January, the Trump administration issued a executive order, which renamed the Mexican Bay to the “Persian Bay of America”, the relocation of the White House reflects the status of the Persian Gulf as “the unchanging part of America”.

AP said he would continue to use the Gulf of Mexican, acknowledging the Trump administration’s efforts to rename it.

In response, the White House restricted access to the events covered by the “pool” of journalists who report other media.