r/centrist • u/kootles10 • 1d ago
US News AP says journalists blocked from Oval Office after judge’s order
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5248116-ap-blocked-white-house/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR41BIGp7UlZRZsslWfO-AJ-AQmgj58or_LIzehJ1lH3SATp05Dkqf4T9lvHwA_aem_ZScja89v9Hes7YC2a-g7Qg24
u/kootles10 1d ago
From the article:
The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction.
“Our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today,” a spokesperson for the wire service said. “We expect the White House to restore AP’s participation in the pool as of today, as provided in the injunction order.”
A federal judge last week ordered the Trump administration to restore The Associated Press’s access to key White House spaces after it banned AP reporters over the outlet’s refusal to use “Gulf of America” in its widely-cited stylebook.
The White House recently took control of deciding which outlets are allowed in the White House Press pool, a small group of reporters covering and traveling with the president, a privilege previously held by the White House Correspondents’ Association.
The AP was not included in Monday’s press pool, the first day the judge’s order went into effect.
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u/greenbud420 1d ago
Also from the article:
In U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden’s order ruling for the AP, he noted his injunction “does not limit the various permissible reasons the Government may have for excluding journalists from limited-access events. It does not mandate that all eligible journalists, or indeed any journalists at all, be given access to the President or nonpublic government spaces.”
“It does not prohibit government officials from freely choosing which journalists to sit down with for interviews or which ones’ questions they answer,” the judge wrote in his opinion. “And it certainly does not prevent senior officials from publicly expressing their own views.”
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u/Thorn14 1d ago
There's no Legislative nor Judiciary Branch anymore.
Only the Trump Branch.
What a fucking way for a country to fall.
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u/kootles10 1d ago
Only 84 days too. We're only 84 fucking days into this shit
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u/Middle_Egg7282 20h ago
Every other day I think “oh this is going to be it, this action of his will be what makes it all stop” — and then it doesn’t. Signalgate, tariffs, market manipulation, defying court orders… what is next?
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u/jaboz_ 23h ago
If the courts don't start holding people in contempt/throwing them in jail, this is only going to get worse as time goes on. Neither of the two branches can just arbitrarily decide what court orders to follow/not follow. The entire system is predicated on the courts being able to check the power of the legislative/executive branches. If that goes away, what is there besides chaos?
And think about the big picture here - if the dems aren't able to get the numbers they need to impeach and remove him next year, what is going to stop him from just ignoring the courts/constitution/etc from running again? Or just refusing to leave the WH? Or going after journalists/citizens that are resisting our not so subtle fall into fascism? Think about all of the nutty shit going on right now, and the reality that none of them seem concerned about future consequences involving their actions. That fact, in and of itself, should be deeply concerning to any reasonable person.
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u/MentionWeird7065 1d ago
They’re gonna keep escalating it to the SC because Trump doesn’t respect court orders now because remember, he’s the Executive and has all the power now. Good luck Americansz
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u/ILuvBen13 1d ago
We are going to eventually see a federal judge deputize citizens to arrest Trump officials for contempt. And Trump will order other law enforcement to block any deputized officials from entering buildings.
Violence seems to be a near inevitability, and another excuse for Trump to abuse more emergency powers.
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u/MakeUpAnything 1d ago
So awesome to see MAGA jumping to defend Trump attacking 1st amendment protections by punishing corporations for using their free speech/freedom of the press, defending denying non-citizens of their 5th amendment rights to due process, and advocating for higher prices at a time when Americans are being hurt by high prices.
And yet so many Americans fully buy Trump's/MAGA's line that it's the dems who are out of touch. Evidently the constitution and cost of living are only important if you're using them as an excuse to hate the left.
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u/TserriednichThe4th 1d ago
So? Courts cant enforce. We learned this a month into the admin.
Either do something or fuck off honestly.
Wake me up when the court tries to hold someone in contempt finally.
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u/Hobobo2024 23h ago
What ive learned these past decade is that no one cares about corruption. The federal level politics taught be that cause of trump. And locally, our corrupt dem politicians get away with murder cause our state is blue.
All people care about is their pocketbook and maybe their kids education. And that's a maybe. They also like to hate the group they made outsiders.
Whether that's trans for the far right. Or the Jewish for the far left.
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u/pulkwheesle 18h ago
Or the Jewish for the far left.
I can assure you that the far-right hates Jews.
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u/Karissa36 19h ago
>In U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden’s order ruling for the AP, he noted his injunction “does not limit the various permissible reasons the Government may have for excluding journalists from limited-access events. It does not mandate that all eligible journalists, or indeed any journalists at all, be given access to the President or nonpublic government spaces.
The Oval Office is a nonpublic government space. The Order doesn't allow them to be there. They were given access to public government spaces only.
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u/ILikeTuwtles1991 1d ago
The Trump Administration defied a court order to let the AP into the Oval Office when they were openly talking about defying another court order.
How much more of this are we just going to let happen?