As a former White House occupant might have put it, "c'mon, man." A federal judge on Tuesday ruled the Trump administration violated the vaunted principle of freedom of the press when it barred the Associated Press from certain White House events because the news agency refused to go along with its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

A lawyer for The Associated Press asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and

The judge ruled the government cannot retaliate against the AP’s decision not to follow the president’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.