Steve HermanMar 20
DOJ, on behalf of defendants including Kari Lake, files an appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit seeking to reverse last Saturday’s ruling ordering USAGM to return to work the Voice of America staff by Monday and resume all broadcasts that were suddenly taken off air a year ago.
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Update: In a subsequent motion late Thursday, DoJ requests the federal district court “at the least should stay its (VOA) return-to-work mandate for fourteen days
to allow Defendants (USAGM) to seek further relief at the D.C. Circuit.”
Mar 20 at 2:53amWeb
Show threadSteve HermanMar 20
USAGM, in a court filing, explains it’s beyond the agency’s capacity to follow the judge’s order to bring back the remaining 484 Voice of America employees on administrative leave by Monday because the onboarding process would take at least seven weeks. (They certainly had no problem a year ago instantly sidelining 1,000+)
Show threadBruce Heerssen Mar 20
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Bullshit. They can "onboard" while sitting at a desk and drawing a paycheck.
Show threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Mar 20
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This suggests that ‘administrative leave’ was not the whole story. If you stop being “on leave”, you can just return to your job.
Show threadGeorge Liquor, American6d ago

@KimSJ @newsguyusa Yeah I'm pretty sure onboarding is a thing that happens with new hires. This isn't that.

Do they think we don't know?

Show threadT2RMar 20
@newsguyusa Delay, delay, delay, and obstruct is the only thing this regime knows how to do. Other than complying with their fat orange dear leader's whims.
Show threadDBMar 20
@newsguyusa I dunno, Lamberth may not want to stay his own order. He is a former DOJ guy he might make them go to the Appeals court and ask them to order a stay. If he wanted to make them work over the weekend 😎