President Donald Trump is free to bar the Associated Press from some White House media events after a U.S. appeals court on Friday paused a lower court ruling mandating that AP journalists be given access.

Anyway, the AP, which sued over this issue, had previously gotten a ruling from a lower court judge back in April saying that, if the White House opens up spaces like the Oval for press access, it has to do it for everybody,

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,