On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small, rotating subset of the press corps (known as the press pool) sent to cover the President at smaller events and ride aboard Air Force One.
The 18-page lawsuit said “[t]he White House has ordered The Associated Press to use certain words in its coverage or else face an indefinite denial of access” that began on February 11 when they believe the news media “have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against” and thus “a threat to every…
