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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on April 22, 2025, 2139 UTC

Title: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded news broadcasts
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on April 22, 2025, 2139 UTC
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-trumps-shutdown-government-funded-radio-broadcasts-2025-04-22/ (https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-trumps-shutdown-government-funded-radio-broadcasts-2025-04-22/)

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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing six lawsuits from employees and contractors affected by the shutdown of U.S. Agency for Global Media, ordered the administration to 'take all necessary steps' to restore employees and contractors to their positions and resume radio, television and online news broadcasts.

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Congress has funded and authorized the broadcasts to provide an 'accurate, objective, and comprehensive' source of news in other nations and export the 'cardinal American values of free speech, freedom of the press, and open debate,' Lamberth wrote. Congress made the broadcasts mandatory and did not allow the executive branch to unilaterally terminate or defund them, he ruled.
Title: Re: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded news broadcasts
Post by: Molvania Poacher on April 25, 2025, 0355 UTC
Lamberth's Order:

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1015-98 (https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1015-98)
Title: Re: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded news broadcasts
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on April 29, 2025, 0226 UTC
The judge's ruling:

Restores: VOA, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks
Does not restore: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio y Televisión Martí) was restored already in March.
Title: Re: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded news broadcasts
Post by: Ct Yankee on April 29, 2025, 1148 UTC
Quote from: Charlie_Dont_Surf on April 29, 2025, 0226 UTC
The Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio y Televisión Martí) was restored already in March.

I had read same about Radio Martí but yet to receive any of their normally ubiquitous transmissions.