Judge lifts Trump White House restrictions on AP while lawsuit proceeds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The order from U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who Trump appointed during his first term, requires the White House to allow the AP's journalists to access the Oval Office, Air Force One and events held at the White House while the AP's lawsuit moves forward.
50% : The restrictions prevent the AP's journalists from seeing and hearing Trump and other top White House officials as they take newsworthy actions or respond in real time to news events.
49% : Two AP journalists, Zeke Miller, the agency's chief White House correspondent, and Evan Vucci, its chief Washington photographer, told the court at a March 27 hearing that the restrictions had hampered the AP's ability to cover Trump.
41% : The White House began limiting the AP's access to several events that featured Trump after the news agency said it would continue to use the name Gulf of Mexico, while acknowledging Trump's order to change the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.
29% : "We're basically dead in the water on major stories," testified Vucci, who took a now-iconic photograph of Trump pumping his fist after a 2024 assassination attempt.

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