Nine months after the White House booted the Associated Press from White House events because it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico with the Trump administration’s preferred term, the Gulf of America, the news organization asked a trio of federal judges Monday to permanently find that the government violated its First Amendment rights.

After the AP won an April preliminary injunction before U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, a three-judge circuit court panel ruled 2-1 that the White House was within its rights to bar the news service from some events.

On Monday, the AP asked a new circuit court panel in Washington to reverse that finding and rule permanently in its favor. Two of the panel’s members, Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao, were on the first one, presenting the AP with t

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