US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded news broadcasts

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-trumps-shutdown-government-funded-radio-broadcasts-2025-04-22/

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.

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.

[Molvania Poacher]

Lamberth's Order:

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1015-98