The judge said that he needed more time to determine whether the new policy was discriminatory, but said that the elimination of rotating access for newswires was “facially neutral.”

District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden denied a request from the Associated Press to enforce his injunction on the White House’s ban on the news organization.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed wary of the administration’s arguments that they must immediately intervene in the case, saying there wasn’t a