The Associated Press (AP) has filed suit against the White House Chief of Staff and White House Press Secretary for barring AP journalists from the White House and Presidential events due to AP's refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico, the "Gulf of America." The AP argues that by preventing it from attending press events over this disagreement in naming convention, the defendants have violated AP's First Amendment right to freedom of speech as well as their Fifth Amendment right to due process. AP requested that the court order the defendants to restore AP's access to events and spaces made open to all credentialed White House journalists.
