A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can exclude journalists from the Oval Office, Air Force One and other “restricted” spaces based on their editorial decisions, handing the administration a win in its fight with the Associated Press over access.

A federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump’s White House can resume restricting access to the Associated Press to the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-A-Lago. “The White House is likely to succeed on the merits because these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion,

An appellate court in a 2-1 ruling Friday allowed President Donald Trump to ban the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other restricted presidential spaces, overruling a lower court. Trump had banned the news organization from the Oval Office in February after it refused to update its stylebook to use the new Gulf of