The Associated Press is suing several Trump administration officials after the White House limited the organization’s access to the Oval Office over its refusal to use the term “Gulf of America” to describe what was formerly called the Gulf of Mexico.

The news wire announced its lawsuit against White House chief of staff Susan Wiles, deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday afternoon. It alleges that Wiles and Leavitt said the Associated Press could not cover President Donald Trump from the Oval Office unless it updated its stylebook to replace the Gulf of Mexico with the Gulf of America.

“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 Associated Press said in its lawsuit.

“This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment,” the news wire said. “This court should remedy it immediately.”

Trump made it clear that the Associated Press’s decision not to use the term Gulf of America is why the outlet is indefinitely barred from the Oval Office at a press conference on Tuesday: “We’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.”

In defending the decision, Leavitt stated that “it is a privilege to cover this White House” and that the Trump administration reserves the right to decide who goes into the Oval Office.

“Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions. That’s an invitation that is given,” she said.

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Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America via an executive order on his first day in office.

“I took this action in part because, as stated in that Order, ‘[t]he area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America,” he wrote in a proclamation.