Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America wasn't followed

[Dulcinea]

(AP) A federal judge on Wednesday essentially accused the Trump administration of ignoring his orders to restore Voice of America’s operations and explain clearly what it is doing with the government-run operation that provides news to other countries.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia gave the administration until Aug. 13 to explain how it will get VOA working again. The outlet that dates back to World War II has been largely dark since March.

Lamberth said the administration needs to show what it is doing with the $260 million Congress appropriated for VOA’s operations this year.

Kari Lake, the adviser appointed by Trump to run the government news agencies, said in June that 85% of employees at VOA and its overseers at the U.S. Agency for Global Media had lost their jobs. She called it a “long overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy.”

https://apnews.com/article/voa-voice-america-media-trump-administration-b60d40621f41b2ff4460803de4e0142f

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That's easy to explain:

1. We don't let anyone tell us what to do.
2. We don't feel like it.
3. You can't make us.

[rampartd]

2. i'd rather shut it down

than allow kari lake to broadcast russian propaganda to the free nations of europe.

[gab13by13]

3. Marc Elias said yesterday

for us not to believe that our courts are now powerless because that's what Dictators want.

It's getting harder to not believe that, it's getting closer. Judge Boasberg who ordered the planes with immigrants on board turned around is being attacked by Krasnov. Boasberg should have held Krasnov's attorneys in contempt for lying to him in court. He held back and was still attacked by Krasnov.