The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to ban the Associated Press from certain spaces after it refused to change its stylebook to reflect the name change for the Gulf of America.
In a 2–1 decision, the court granted a stay of a lower court’s injunction pending appeal. It was a partial stay, applying to the Oval Office, Air Force One, Mar-a-Lago, and similar spaces. However, it declined to halt part of the injunction applying to the East Room of the White House.
“The identified harms are less clear with respect to the East Room, which does not share the hallmarks of spaces like the Oval Office,” Circuit Judge Neomi Rao said in an opinion joined by Judge Gregory Katsas….