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In today's installment of "Decisions Nobody Asked For," a judge waved their magic gavel and returned Voice of America to its former glory. 🎙️✨ Because what the world really needed is another government-run media outlet to tell us just how great everything is, right? 🙄 #ThanksButNoThanks
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6d1ef05272f842705da0ed38d3de24 #DecisionsNobodyAskedFor #GovernmentMedia #VoiceOfAmerica #MediaCritique #JudgeDecision #HackerNews #ngated

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order came a week after he ruled that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's choice to effectively lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have the authority to effectively dismantle the congressionally authorized Voice of America. Following an executive order by Trump a year ago, Lake had put 1,047 of 1,147 employees on administrative leave. The administration had contended it was a bloated agency and wanted government-run news organizations to better reflect its point of view

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N-gated Hacker News Dec 23

🚨 Oh no, Texas' attempt to make the App Store a #daycare got benched by a judge 📵. Turns out, verifying ages is not as easy as playing cowboy 🤠. Maybe they should focus on more serious issues, like how to fix a hat to stay on straight while riding Twitter's wild bull. 🐂
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/ #Texas #AppStore #JudgeDecision #AgeVerification #TwitterWildBull #HackerNews #ngated

Texas App Store Age Verification Law Blocked by Federal Judge

A Texas federal judge today blocked an App Store age verification law that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, which means Apple may not...

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Livio Acerbo Mar 14, 2024

Judge's Decision on Trump Case | Your Opinion Counts: Do you agree with the dismissal of charges against Trump? Your view matters! #TrumpCase, #JudgeDecision, #LegalOpinion, #YourVoice, #ElectionInterference, #JusticeSystem, #PoliticalDebate, #PublicOpinion, #VoteNow,… https://t.co/7IcKl0pLsF https://t.co/xfOsubPPDN on https://twitter.com/AcerboLivio/status/1768194292361695600

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U.S. Politics in Real Time Jun 7, 2023

Judge grants request for George Santos’s bond sponsors to be unsealed

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4036947-judge-grants-request-for-george-santoss-bond-sponsors-to-be-unsealed/

#TheHill #GeorgeSantos #bondSponsors #unsealed #JudgeDecision #legalNews #Politics #News

Judge grants request for George Santos’s bond sponsors to be unsealed

A federal judge Tuesday granted media organizations’ requests to unseal the names of the people who cosigned Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case. The order is a blow to Santos, whose attorney Monday asked a judge to keep the names of the bond cosigners sealed. The congressman’s lawyer, Joseph Murray,…

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Poetry News Feb 17, 2023

Fraud case defendant
Living in garden of devices
Tighter restriction looms

#cryptofraud #bankmanfried #judgedecision #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/bankman-fried-crypto-fraud-bail.html

Judge Signals Jail Time if Bankman-Fried’s Internet Access Is Not Curbed

The defendant in a widespread cryptocurrency fraud case has been living in a “garden of electronic devices,” the judge says. Tighter restrictions are ahead.