The Associated Press announced Friday that it has sued three Trump administration officials after its reporters were blocked from covering White House events, citing violations of the First and Fifth amendments.

Amid the Trump administration's flurry of executive orders in the first month of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term came a rumor of the existence of a memo ordering that the word "felon" no longer be used on the White House grounds.

The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.