WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court on Monday will hear oral arguments in the Associated Press’s battle with President Donald Trump over access to presidential events, a major press-freedom case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is considering the Trump administration’s appeal of an April ruling that it unlawfully retaliated against the AP because it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico by President Trump’s preferred name for it: the Gulf of America.

The oral argument is set for 9:30 a.m. ET. “We strongly believe this case could have much wider implications, not only for other news organizations, but for anyone in America,” an AP spokesperson said. “Those ripples are becoming more evident since we first took this case to court.” The White House did not immediately respond to a r

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