The administration barred the AP from the White House press pool for refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” in its news coverage.

A federal appeals court will allow the White House to exclude the Associated Press from access to the Oval Office, Mar-a-Lago and Air Force One if it chooses, according to a new court order in the ongoing legal battle over press access.

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