Federal Judge Says NO To Defunding PBS, NPR

Although the Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolved at the beginning of the year, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service still celebrated a win in court on Tuesday, when a federal judge in Washington, DC blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order intended to strip the organizations of federal funding. NPR’s attorney, Theodore Boutrous, called US District Judge Randolph’s permanent injunction “a victory for the First Amendment and for freedom of the press.” “As the court expressly recognized, the First Amendment draws a line, which the government may not cross, at efforts to use government power—including the power of the purse—'to punish or suppress disfavored expression’ by others,” he said in a statement to The Associated Press.