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Posted on 11/18/2025 2:29:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge ruled against one of the Trump administration’s efforts to defund NPR.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) had slashed a $36 million contract with NPR after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting funding to the news outlet. After a judge’s ruling, the CPB is renewing the contract after a judge ruled in NPR’s favor, according to the network.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage. The argument, part of a broader lawsuit by NPR and several stations against the Trump administration, focused on CPB funding for NPR's operation of a satellite distribution system for local public radio stations. NPR announced Monday it would waive all fees for the stations associated with the satellite service for two years.
The judge in the case had explicitly told CPB's legal team he did not find its defense credible. CPB lawyers had argued that the decision to award a contract instead to Public Media Infrastructure, a new consortium of public media institutions, was driven by a desire to foster digital innovations more swiftly.
Katherine Maher, President and CEO of NPR, celebrated the settlement, calling it “a victory for editorial independence and a step toward upholding the First Amendment rights of NPR and the public media system in our legal challenge to [Trump’s] Executive Order,” in a written statement.
In its submission Monday evening to the court, CPB did not concede that it had acted wrongfully — nor that it had yielded to political pressure from...
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Rotten little federal judges. Legends in their own minds.
Like a gambling casino roulette wheel, “justice” is won by the person who draws a judge biased in their favor before the ruling is decided and lost by one with a judge who hates and despises them before hearing the case.
That’s gambling. Not “justice.”
We are in a civil war on several fronts. Our corrupt judiciary being one of them.
Jeff Hall, supposed pro-freedom writer for The New Republic, did not bother to identify “which judge” made the ruling. Nor when that judge was appointed, who appointed and nominated him/her/it, nor how other rulings that judge has made against Trump since Jan 25 2025.
Some 225 different rulings opposing Trump have been dictated by the Clinton-Obama-Biden-Harris JustUs judges. Since January this year.
Defunding PBS is huge on my list. I hope the administration has a plan b.
Time to start ignoring the lower judges. The other side does.
A judge ruled against the new trucking rules;
A judge ruled against Texas redistricting;
and now a judge ruled against Trump’s plan to stop funding leftist propaganda.
These are not rulings based upon the constitution and the law. No. They are based upon “orangemanbad”.
I never thought our judiciary would become so corrupt.
NPR and PBS have the wealthiest demographics of any of the major media outlets. Why do these people think their lawn guy should be compelled to kick in and pay for their news and entertainment? I suppose that is how they got rich in the first place.
How can a judge federal or other make the decision of what goes into or comes out of the national budget?
Always has been corrupt it’s just very obvious right now.
“a satellite distribution system for local public radio stations”
Is that necessary in the age of high-speed Internet?
Judge this, judge that: Who will rid us of these meddlesome Communist jurists?
Who says NPR is a news outlet? They are just as biased as CNN only with voices like anesthesia.
The next shoe to drop is the obvious compromised process these judges follow. It now draws enough scrutiny that every case that came out of their collective bench should have an appeal filed on the cases. The judges are obviously political creatures running amuck like they are the Borg Queen. These judges are incapable of impartiality in anything.
Time to start ignoring the lower judges. “
The SC gave Trump what needed to do this but he not done it. Not s single time. The TX ruling probably will cost us the House because has already matched the seats we will were going to get but won’t.
You know, the Supreme Court Justices could save themselves and everyone else a lot of trouble, heartache, and injustice if they would outlaw the rulings of tyrannical, petty judges in advance by one overriding judicial ruling.
Recruited in law school as a potential Sleeper judge.
” “a victory for editorial independence and a step toward upholding the First Amendment rights of NPR”
So forcing the government to fund propaganda is a first amendment victory? Where does it say the government must fund this garbage?
Will this be appealed?
Time to start ignoring the lower judges. The other side does.
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