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,” the judges, Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas, wrote in their ruling. “The White House therefore retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted.”

Read the Trump-AP decision.

In their decision, the judges granted a stay to part of a lower court judge’s order that the White House had to restore access to the AP at events where other media outlets also are invited. The judges, though, made an exception

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