A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events has refused to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply.

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 Donald Trump is violating his order — as the AP suggests.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1641·
    3 days ago

    Lol. This country is filled to the brim with cowards renouncing their oaths.

    Home of the brave my fucking ass.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    922·
    3 days ago

    He also wasn’t swayed by the AP’s argument that it’s unconstitutional for the president to have sole discretion over who covers him at these smaller events. “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.” McFadden said that the first few days since his order took effect gave him concerns that Trump’s team is “not proceeding in compliance here, or perhaps malicious compliance.” But the judge, appointed to the court by Trump during the president’s first term, said he has to assume that the administration is operating in good faith unless time proves otherwise.

    Uh, no you don’t, dipshit. You don’t at all. I doubt there are many laws that dictate assumptions need to be made. This isn’t corporate America, you don’t have to assume positive intent.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      42·
      3 days ago

      But the judge, appointed to the court by Trump during the president’s first term, said he has to assume that the administration is operating in good faith unless time proves otherwise.

      Mr Judge, trump is intentionally defying your judicial order. What part of that is operating in good faith? What will it take for your to see that “good faith” has long since been exhausted?

      • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.mlEnglish
        52·
        3 days ago

        What you call “good faith” and what they call “good faith” and what he calls “good faith” and what she calls “good faith” and what the judge calls “good faith” is all different kinds of faith.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      351·
      3 days ago

      It fucking kills me how judges will absolutely fuck every day people up, but then when it comes to the wealthy and well connected, it’s suddenly “oh, well, they only murdered two people, I think a fine is kind of crossing the line here, let’s be reasonable about this”.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    29·
    3 days ago

    So, as I expected, the judgment is entirely useless. Without strong enforcement, these judgments are utterly valueless. The court exists as a watchdog against corruption and abuse - but at this point, it’s contributing. He should absolutely be micromanaging the White House and looking out to preserve the meaning of our Constitution.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    154·
    3 days ago

    lol

    WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly 100 days, President Donald Trump has rattled Washington and been chastened by its institutions.

    He’s startled world leaders with his unpredictability and tough talk, but won their praise for a surprise strike on Syria.

    He’s endured the steady drip of investigations and a seemingly endless churn of public personnel drama.

    “It’s a different kind of a presidency,” Trump said in an Oval Office interview with The Associated Press, an hourlong conversation as he approached Saturday’s key presidential benchmark.

    I’ve said it before and some of you really don’t want to hear this, but AP has soft-pedaled trump since day 1 and now they’re reaping their reward. Perhaps they should have told the truth instead of choosing the barest descriptors to indicate he’s a demented rapist fraud committing treason.

    They’ve never said “lies”. They’ve never made the obvious case that he’s not competent. They’ve done everything every other corporate news sewer has done, which is to state the basics in as non-threatening a way as possible and hope the intellgentsia glean their implications. Which helps no one but themselves.

    Journalism - such as the AP represents - has failed catastrophically. No one is happy about that. But the AP can only blame themselves. In a reasonable world, they would take this as the challenge it is and start busting trump’s chops every day all day - BUT THEY WON’T. They’ll lie down and wait the years it takes to pass, continuing to poop out stenography for the administration until hopefully someone else gains power and lets them back in to the food bowl.

    Fuck the AP. And I say that knowing full well they’re one of the better corporate news sewers. That’s how far down we are. They refuse to help, they refuse to fulfill the basic journalistic brief of speaking truth to power and they do so because they’re run by republiQans who want trump to be their fascist king. I hope they fold as an organization after briefly attempting porn as a last ditch attempt to stay solvent.

    • boughtmysoul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      85·
      3 days ago

      Well I’m glad you managed to find a way to blame the AP for being banned from the White House instead of the one who banned them.

  • Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    I’ll give you 1 guess at who appointed this judge to the bench

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    Where the rule of law means nothing to the wealthy, the government should mean nothing to the poor.

  • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    And I’m sure at Easter dinner my whole family will still be saying “Thank god Trump’s second term will be over in 4 years and things will go back to normal!” as if anyone in the government will actually be willing and able to prevent him from simply continuing on with his dictatorship. This cinches it for me - I’m convinced that we’re not getting out of this without American Revolution 2.0.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
      7·
      3 days ago

      The first thing Putin did before staying in power forever was to amend the constitution to give himself another term.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Fortunately it’s much harder to amend our constitution. It won’t happen, at least not legally, and there will be some sort of pushback.