The wire service’s journalists have been banned from White House events since Feb. 11 over the organization’s use of the name Gulf of Mexico.

We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have the credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today'

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit.