A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to shut down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally funded news organization that broadcasts in 27 languages to 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.
Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted RFE/RL a temporary restraining order against U.S. Agency for Global Media senior adviser Kari Lake and the Trump administration, ruling that the organization’s claim of an Administrative Procedure Act violation is likely to succeed on its merits.
“The leadership of USAGM cannot, with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation, force RFE/RL to shut down—even if the President has told them to do so,” Lamberth wrote in his ruling.
The organization brought forward a variety of legal complaints, “including an…
