A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump White House to ban the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other restricted spaces for now in a ruling that blocked a lower court's ruling that claimed the ban was unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted in part a stay of the lower court's April 8 ruling that declared the content-based ban unconstitutional. Both of the judges who ruled in the administration's favor were nominated by President Trump in his first term.

"We grant in part the government's motion for a stay pending appeal," Judge Gregory Katsas and Judge Neomi Rao wrote. "The White House is likely to succeed on the merits because these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for priva

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