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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AP sues 3 Trump administration officials
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:56:14 -0500
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On 2/22/2025 12:58 PM, JAB wrote:
> AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
> 
> 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. "We'll see
> them in court," the White House press secretary said in response.
> 
> 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. It was assigned to U.S. District Judge
> Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee.
> 
> 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.
> ...
> ...
> ....
> This week, about 40 news organizations signed onto a letter organized
> by the White House Correspondents Association, urging the White House
> to reverse its policy against the AP. They included outlets like Fox
> News Channel and Newsmax, where many of the on-air commentators are
> Trump supporters.
> 
> "We can understand President Trump's frustration because the media has
> often been unfair to him, but Newsmax still supports AP's right, as a
> private organization, to use the language it wants to use in its
> reporting," Newsmax said in a statement. "We fear a future
> administration may not like something Newsmax writes and seek to ban
> us."
> 
> https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8
> 
> 

Blocking their journalists from the White House access is not the same 
as censoring what they write, which is what the Second Amendment 
protects. This is the type of case that will see a number of appeals, 
regardless of the initial court ruling



-- 
Dr. Auric D. Hellman
adhellman1@gmail.com