Mastodawn

🚨🚨Judge Lamberth orders USAGM, by March 23, to bring back all 1,042 VOA employees, who have been on paid admin leave for a year and resume full broadcasting. The court also rules all the actions Kari Lake took to reduce US international broadcasting to a supposed “statutory minimum” are vacated.

Steve Herman 6d ago

This is a comprehensive legal defeat for Elon Musk’s DOGE lackeys, the self-proclaimed USAGM ‘deputy CEO’ Kari Lake and others in the Trump administration who sought to eviscerate the Voice of America. If USAGM complies there is almost certainly a battle imminent on whether the editorial firewall will be respected, which prohibits partisan skewing of VOA’s journalism.

Steve Herman 6d ago

CNN - A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must let more than 1,000 sidelined Voice of America employees return to work by next week. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/media/voice-of-america-staff-reinstated-trump

Judge orders Voice of America staff reinstated, reversing Trump’s shutdown

A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must let more than 1,000 sidelined Voice of America employees return to work by next week.

CNN

Steve Herman 6d ago

Politico - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that the near shutdown of Voice of America was illegal and has ordered the government to reinstate more than 1,000 people who were placed on leave from the media organization. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/voice-of-america-back-to-work-00833388

No soy Mario 6d ago

@newsguyusa one can only wonder how many of those 1000, having suffered personally at the hand of their state, have self-inoculated against the US propaganda the VoA publishes.

@marijn @newsguyusa This is what I'm thinking. They're going to be going back *MAD*... Before now they actually probably would have effectively served the regime. Now... Fingers crossed, but they should be coming back so angry they do everything they can to work against it instead. The irony is so thick it's palpable.

And the regime will be trying everything it can to shut them back down probably. Which will just make them madder...

Brian Clark 6d ago

@newsguyusa very glad to see this. I’m very thankful for the people fighting the good fight.

Paul Chambers🚧6d ago

@newsguyusa Weeeeeell doggy!

Optimistic Moron 6d ago

@newsguyusa
Those poor, poor #MAGA 's. They must be SOOOO bored with winning by now,

@newsguyusa Congratulations to you and everyone defending the law and our national interest. If I were a betting man I would set up a pool on how long it will take the defendants to become non-compliant and for Lamberth to start holding them in contempt 😉

Are you a tad excited about this? There's hope!

Steve Holden 4d ago

@Bette @newsguyusa Wonderful (not) to se (what passes for) America’s left wing (per the same legacy media who lie about everything) celebrating it being reopened.

Now might be the time to take some fucking action to make sure the next rogue president can’t shit on the constitution.

Not being holier than thou here. Out UK pols were like bleating sheep during Johnson’s disastrous premiership, and have done eff all to discourage repeats as far as I can see.

@newsguyusa @Fanua
Love to see it! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Matthew Martin 6d ago

@newsguyusa Wow.

The Febrile Muse 6d ago

Give em hell Steve!

Meznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWER 6d ago

@newsguyusa 👏 ♥️

Carlos Solís 6d ago

@newsguyusa I suppose that no longer includes you personally as you already moved to work full-time for the Jordan Center, right?

Comrade Weez 6d ago

@newsguyusa Will you go back to VOA?

@iveyline 6d ago

@newsguyusa Kari Lake was and is a disaster waiting to happen

0xDECAFBAD 5d ago

@newsguyusa I assume the administration will appeal and get a stay and eventually have this overturned at SCOTUS if not before.