Trump Administration Must Halt Voice of America Dismantling (1)

The Trump administration must temporarily roll back its efforts to shutter the Voice of America, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The government “took immediate and drastic action to slash” the US Agency for Global Media,” without considering its statutory obligations or “regard to the harm inflicted on employees, contractors, journalists, and media consumers around the world,” Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in an opinion granting preliminary injunctive relief in two cases challenging the constitutionality of the administration’s efforts to close the news outlet. “It is hard to fathom a ...