Judge won't take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 4:30 PM EDT, April 18, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events refused Friday to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply — an incremental development in a two-month dispute between the global news agency and administration officials over access.

The case, which has significant free-speech implications under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, centers on the government blocking AP’s access to cover events because the outlet won’t rename the Gulf of Mexico in its reports.

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, who handed the AP a victory last week in its efforts to end the ban, said it’s too soon to say that President Donald Trump is violating his order — as the AP suggests. “We are not at the point where we can make much of a determination one way or another,” said McFadden, ruling from the bench. “I don’t intend to micromanage the White House.”

The AP’s lawyer, Charles Tobin, wouldn’t comment about the judge’s decision after the proceedings. The White House issued no immediate comment.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-ap-access-white-house-12ef5a496d3da10d0461641b26dd9d47

[Irish_Dem]

1. Does the judge take his bribes in dollars or rubles?

[Lovie777]

2. And yet, shithole musk republicans are now doing their best to "micromanage"..........

the USA.

Judge speaks with fork tongue.

Counter.

[NotHardly]

3. F*cking coward, spineless whimp!

[Solly Mack]

4. Too soon?

Snort.

[bluestarone]

5. Well, i guess the judge will wait until a news person is thrown out and

ASSAULTED? Is that what it's gonna take?

[tanyev]

6. Maybe Judge McFadden got some pizza deliveries this week.

Hundreds of pizzas have been delivered to the homes of judges and their adult children amid increasing threats to the judiciary, including some sent in the name of a New Jersey federal judge’s murdered son. [emphasis added].

Speaking of her late son, Daniel, the Hon. Esther Salas was quoted in the Bloomberg article:

“Now Daniel’s name is being weaponized to bring fear to judges and their children,” she said during the event. “You’re saying to those judges, you want to end up like Judge Salas? You want to end up like Judge Salas’ son? These are alarming developments.”

Salas said in an interview that at least 10 pizzas have been sent to federal judges and their relatives, with her son’s name listed as the sender. These deliveries have been made across the US , including in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Los Angeles, she said.

https://www.ediscoveryllc.com/pizzas-sent-to-judges-homes-in-name-of-judges-murdered-son/

[Magoo48]

7. The top tier of our two-tiered justice system is absolutely Lawless; the bottom tier is more oppressive daily.

Fascism.

[JoseBalow]

8. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

[TomSlick]

9. Give it time.

Soon enough Trump will clearly violate the court's order and say that he is defying the court.

[asm128]

10. Fucking Trump appointee

They continue to be a cancer on this country. They all need to be purged.