Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-press-freedom-court-gulf-caffd32aa8ec6b04a50b8c5277d7c9cb

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event
By DAVID BAUDER
Updated 9:03 PM CDT, April 14, 2025

Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.

Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit set a Thursday hearing on Trump’s request that any changes be delayed while case is reviewed. The AP is fighting for more access as soon as possible.

Later Monday, two AP photographers were admitted to an event honoring Ohio State’s championship football team on the more spacious South Lawn. A text reporter was turned away.

Since mid-February, AP reporters and photographers have been blocked from attending events in the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump frequently addresses journalists, and on Air Force One. The AP has seen sporadic access elsewhere, and regularly covers White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s briefings. Leavitt is one of three administration officials named in the AP’s lawsuit.

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[lark]

1. This is such a lawless admin. Everything they do is for hurt and pain and they get off on that.

[dalton99a]

2. +1. They laugh at the judges. Because they know there are no consequences

[mdbl]

3. The American public needs to know that whoever Dump approves to be in the press corp

will just spread his lies for him. Anyone else is banned. So just don't bother listening to them anymore. That goes for Fux, OAN, Newmax etc.

[Septua]

4. 5. Control information at home, misinform abroad

The dictator's playbook.

https://www.demdigest.org/want-to-be-an-autocrat-heres-the-10-point-playbook/

[Fla Dem]

5. They don't care about court orders. The courts really have NO POWER OVER TRUMP.

So what is the court going to do fine Trump? Big Deal. Pocket change for him or anyone in his administration

Throw him in jail? I don't think so.

The most that can happen is MAYBE impeachment, but all the Dems (213) and 5 Republicans Representatives have to put on their big girl and big boy pants to get a majority of 218 to vote for articles of impeachment. Then a vote of 51 Senators (majority) to vote for impeachment. Current breakdown; Republican 53, Dem 45, Ind 2. Would need 4 Rebublicans to vote for impeachment.

In impeachment proceedings, the House of Representatives charges an official of the federal government by approving, by simple majority vote, articles of impeachment. After the House of Representatives sends its articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Senate sits as a High Court of Impeachment to consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the impeached official. A committee of representatives, called “managers,” act as prosecutors before the Senate. In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office.

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.htm#:~:text=After%20the%20House%20of%20Representatives,as%20prosecutors%20before%20the%20Senate.

Even then if he "quietly" leaves office we get JD Vance who would continue to execute the Elon Musk, Peter Theil, and Project 2025 contributors' plans to remake our government. And without a doubt Trump will be directing behind the scenes.

[bif]

6. DUPE!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220239251

[wolfie001]

7. One of his dumb-ass bootlicking friendly "reporters" asked Miss Piggy how tRUMP "stays so hunky"

What a shitshow.

[uponit7771]

8. We're in a text book dictatorship if judges do nothing

[UTUSN]

9. Knr