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The AP sued three senior Trump aides in February, alleging the restrictions were an attempt to coerce the press into using the administration’s preferred language.
The Washington Post |
The Trump administration said Wednesday it would appeal a federal court decision that ordered it to re-admit Associated Press journalists to White House events on First Amendment grounds.
Yahoo |
The judge ruled that the government can’t retaliate against the AP’s decision to not follow the president’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
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The House already had passed the bills, meaning they are ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign them.
The Florida Senate passed two bills on Wednesday that replace all references in state statutes to the Gulf of Mexico with the “Gulf of America,” and those measures will now soon go to the governor’s office for his likely signature.
The Republican-controlled Florida House passed two bills aimed at erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials.
The U.S. will hold an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, as planned by the administration of former President Joe Biden, and will release a proposed notice of it in June, the Interior Department said on Friday.
Erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials won Florida House approval Thursday. The Republican-controlled House passed two bills along party lines to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to rename the gulf as the Gulf of America.
The Audubon Nature Institute is changing the name of its popular acquarium exhibit to The Gulf of America exhibit, after President Donald Trump officially changed tte name of the massive water body.
A federal district judge on Thursday ruled against a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, faulting the government with failing to sufficiently analyze its possible effects on the climate and endangered whales.