A judge has decided that he will not take any further steps toward restoring the Associated Press's White House access.

The Washington Examiner reports that U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden made his latest decision on the matter last week.

This decision came after he initially gave the Associated Press a win.

This whole situation began when the White House of President Donald Trump decided to essentially ban the Associated Press from the White House.

Background

The Trump administration took the step of banning the Associated Press from the White House after the outlet refused to comply with Trump's order that replaced the name "Gulf of Mexico" with the name "Gulf of America." The Associated Press was one of the only entities that refused to comply - even Google, which has been no supporter of Trump, complied.

The outlet responded by taking the matter to the courts, arguing that the Trump administration had violated its constitutional rights. The Trump administration, however, has argued that there is no constitutional right to White House access for press purposes.

The Associated Press won at the lower court level. Politico reported:

A lower court judge last week ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press’ access after Trump banned the news organization for refusing to adopt his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

The Trump administration did appeal the matter, but the appeal does not appear to have gotten anywhere.

The Examiner reports that the White House, instead, made a change to press briefings. It writes:

Although that injunction went into effect on April 14, the White House announced changes to the presidential press pool the following day that effectively continued to limit the AP’s access by eliminating the news wire spot altogether.

Please, help!

The Associated Press went back to McFadden to try to get him to force the Trump administration to give it access to press briefings. This time around, however, the Associated Press lost.

The Examiner reports:

After hearing arguments from the outlet and the Justice Department on Friday, McFadden disagreed with the AP’s position that the administration’s latest policy, which eliminates a permanent slot for all wire services but makes them eligible for selection as part of the pool’s daily print journalist rotation, violated the terms of his injunction.

The outlet quotes McFadden as saying, "I don't intend to micromanage the White House. I think they are certainly entitled to a presumption of good faith in their actions."

It appears, though, that this matter is far from over.

Instead, it would appear that the Associated Press is going to continue fighting the matter in the courts.