A federal judge blocked Donald Trump‘s executive order that prohibited federal agencies from providing funding to NPR and PBS.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, in a ruling issued on Tuesday, wrote that the president’s executive order “singles out two speakers and, on the basis of their speech, bars them from all federally funded programs.”
“Although there are many lawful reasons that the government might decline to make ‘a valuable governmental benefit’ available to someone, punishing disfavored private speech is not one of them,” the judge wrote.
Read the judge’s ruling in the PBS and NPR case.
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Part of his ruling is now moot. Last summer, the Republican-controlled Congress rescinded all federal funding to the entity that distributed public media money, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB later dissolved.
But Moss noted that PBS and NPR
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