A federal judge has blocked a presidential directive that barred funding for NPR and PBS media entities. Separately, an appeals court panel paused a federal judge's order to bring VOA employees back to work. Grouped from 3 articles across 3 sources.
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A federal judge has blocked a presidential directive that barred funding for NPR and PBS media entities. Separately, an appeals court panel paused a federal judge's order to bring VOA employees back to work.
Citing the first amendment, judge says president’s executive order is unlawful and unenforceable Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Citing the first amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities. The operational impact of US district judge Randolph Moss’s decision was not immediately clear – both because it will probably be appealed and because too much damage to the public-broadcasting system has already been done, both by the president and Congress. Continue reading...
The ruling was unlikely to have a tangible impact as Republicans in Congress also voted to rescind funding for the outlets.
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