U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden has ruled against the Associated Press’s request to restore access to presidential events, stating that the news organization had not shown irreparable harm. He urged the Trump administration to reconsider its recent ban on the AP,

A US judge rejected the Associated Press' demand that the White House immediately restore the news agency's full access to President Donald Trump's events.

District Judge Trevor N. McFadden denied the AP’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have restored press access, after President Trump’s “Gulf of America” decree.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee ... executive order last month directing the U.S. Interior Department to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The AP said in January it would continue to use the gulf's ...

The outlet says the ban from certain White House spaces violates the First Amendment and due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in the lawsuit.

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President Donald Trump's administration barred them for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in coverage.