Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues Trump Over Firings (3)

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its board of directors are suing the Trump administration after three CPB board members received an email on Monday asserting that President Donald Trump had fired them.

The move “is of no legal effect given that the President has no power to remove or terminate CPB’s Board members,” according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday with the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The CPB, a nonprofit corporation established by Congress in 1967, was created to be “insulated from partisan governmental interference and control,” according to the suit. That includes the notion that ...