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Posted on 03/21/2026 11:12:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — In a strongly worded decision this week, a federal judge ordered that the Voice of America — its mission to provide news for countries around the world largely shut down for the past year by the Trump administration — come roaring back to life.
Whether or not that actually happens is anybody’s guess.
The government filed notice Thursday to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s order two days earlier to put hundreds of VOA employees who have been on paid leave the past year back to work. Lamberth had ruled on March 7 that Kari Lake, who was President Donald Trump’s choice to oversee the bureaucratic parent U.S. Agency for Global Media, didn’t have the authority to reduce VOA to a skeleton.
The Voice of America was established as a news source in World War II, beaming reports to many countries that had no tradition of a free press. Before Trump took office again last year, Voice of America was operating in 49 different languages, heard by an estimated 362 million people.
Trump’s team contended that government-run news sources, which also include Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were an example of bloated government and that they wanted news reporting more favorable to the current administration. With a greatly reduced staff, it currently operates in Iran, Afghanistan, China, North Korea and in countries with a large population of Kurds.
Lamberth, in his decision, said Lake had “repeatedly thumbed her nose” at laws mandating VOA’s operation.
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chances? almost zero imho
judgie is hearing voices from a far deeper origin
Where does this Judiciary Funny Bunny get the authority to do this? Who elected this slob? Trump needs to tell the boy to Foxtrot Oscar.
I know that this bass turd is going to tell the Party of Death’s DemonRATS that they can’t fire the Border PATROL and ICE. Right. Or is he a RAT buttkisser? Damn rogue “judges” are out of control and are all over the place. Not one of the bass turds has ever received one vote from the American people. It’s time We the People demand that the DemonRATs’ “judiciary” be defunded and tossed.
Over our dead bodies.
“What are the chances that will happen?”
Sure Judge, put it back together with rubber-bands, stickynotes and cardboard.
“It’s All Ball Bearings Nowadays.”
Could someone explain this to John Roberts? He’s concerned the public has a problem with the federal judiciary, voicing displeasure in their politics from the bench.
Congress can dissolve the lower courts at will. The way the DC Circuit railroaded the J6 defendants into the DC Gulag is more than enough reason to dissolve that circuit and then remake it with Trump's picks . This latest outrage only adds to that necessity.
Pronto.
Note the source....we may want a second one....and maybe even a third.
I wish they would dissolve that bunch.
I’m ordering the 1983 Redsins to be put back together again...
IOW, wish in one hand and poop in the other... Which one gets filled first?
Who listens to Shortwave Radio anymore?
And I say that as someone who grew up as an avid shortwave listener.
It’s hard to force anyone to do a thing unless they are a slave.
Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall
And neither the Judge or his judiciary
Could put him togethef again
This would be governed by statute and Congressional appropriations.
If Congress voted $50 million for the current fiscal year, Kari Lake can’t tell the employees to collect pay and do no work.
judge cant doo dat
0% jurisdiction
So many judges. So much confusion (aka as BS) It is not up to a judge to decide whether VOA should exist.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s just say no to her.
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