The US Agency for Global Media is barred from forcing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to shutter its operations, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
“The leadership of USAGM cannot, with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation,” force the nonprofit to shut down “even if the President has told them to do so,” Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a Tuesday order granting Radio Free Europe’s request for a temporary restraining order.
Radio Free Europe, which has “been funded almost entirely via grant agreements” with USAGM for decades, is a ...
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