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  • AP sues 3 Trump administration officials

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 22 11:58:47 2025
    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

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Feb 23 00:32:04 2025
    On Sat, 22 Feb 2025, 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

    Deport them to homo-land!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to adhellman1@gmail.com on Sun Feb 23 11:20:05 2025
    On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:56:14 -0500, Auric Hellman
    <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

    Blocking their journalists from the White House access is not the same
    as censoring what they write

    compelling reason<<<<

    In Sherrill v. Knight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
    Columbia Circuit ruled that the First Amendment limited the right of
    the White House to arbitrarily deny a press pass to a journalist. The
    court said because the White House had opened the opportunity for
    reporters to be credentialed and thus be present at briefings and
    such, it had obligated itself to establish and follow specific
    procedures for the issuance and denial of such passes. Sherill had
    been denied White House credentials several times over a decade. He
    decided after the appellate ruling not to apply again. The case never
    reached the Supreme Court.

    The three-judge appeals court said, "White House press facilities
    having been made publicly available as a source of information for
    newsmen, the protection afforded newsgathering under the First
    Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press, requires that this access
    not be denied arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons."

    https://www.freedomforum.org/trump-white-house-associated-press-first-amendment/

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