Federal judge orders Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America and Radio Free Asia staff

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3. "...an affront to the power of the legislative branch."

https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-silencing-of-voice-of-america/

"The defendants are likely in violation of numerous federal laws,” Lamberth wrote. “For one VOA’s congressionally established charter in the International Broadcasting Act states that VOA ‘will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news [that is] accurate, objective and comprehensive,’ but the defendants have silenced VOA for the first time ever.”
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Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said the Trump administration's effort to halt congressional funding to the independent media outlet "is an affront to the power of the legislative branch." ...