Steve Herman6d ago
🚨🚨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.
Show threadSteve Herman6d 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.
Show threadSteve Herman6d 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
Show threadSteve Herman
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
Mar 17 at 11:00pmWeb
Show threadNo soy Mario6d 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.
Show threadNazo5d ago

@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...

Show threadBrian Clark6d ago
@newsguyusa very glad to see this. I’m very thankful for the people fighting the good fight.