Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.
A federal judge ruled that Trump’s executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and issued a permanent injunction stating that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it.
The Trump order’s “instruction that all federal agencies stop funding NPR and PBS constitutes a penalty for engaging in speech disfavored by the President and cannot be lawfully implemented by any executive department or agency,” Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee in US District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled yesterday.
The ruling against Trump in the case filed by NPR, PBS, and several stations may not have much practical impact. Trump’s May 2025 executive order was followed by Congress rescinding the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) budget of $1.1 billion for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
They need a serious update.
If there’s one thing Trump is doing, is that he’s turning a lot of heads because he’s making a whole lot of firsts. He’s a demonstration, not since the Bushes/Reagan/Nixon days, as to what happens when an aging, pedophilia-crazed individual with dementia and a lack of empathy and respect for others is president.
When Trump wasn’t going to answer for the 350k deaths during the pandemic and how he dodged impeachment twice - I threw up my arms.
People can rally and call for jail-time all they want for the people in power to answer for. The reality is, as we’ve seen over and over, is that they will never see jail or any penalty. Dick Cheney got to die comfortably. Donald Rumsfeld got to die comfortably. George W Bush is going to die comfortably. Mitch McConnell is soon on his way to die comfortably.
Names of people I’ve mentioned, who’ve committed war crimes and acts that would blatantly spell Treasonous all over, who’ve got off cleanly. Trump, Vance, Pence and others will be no different.
God, fuck this country twenty times over.