A federal judge in Washington on Friday denied a request from The Associated Press to enforce his order requiring the White House to restore the outlet’s full access to President Trump.
Lawyers for The A.P. had accused the White House of defying the order, at first by continuing to bar its journalists from presidential events, then by issuing a policy eliminating the regular, permanent spot in the press pool shared by three independent newswires.
Even though A.P. journalists had been allowed into some events in recent days, the lawyers said, their access had not been equal to that of reporters from Reuters, one of the other newswires.
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