By Scott Nover. Washington Post
A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in a 17-page opinion, granted summary judgment to a group of employees, led by Voice of America's White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara, who sued Lake last year. Lamberth found that Lake, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, violated the Constitution's appointments clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by helming the agency. "The Court finds that these expansive delegations were an unlawful effort to transform Lake into the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media in all but name," Lamberth wrote. The decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats to the Trump administration's year-long effort to dismantle USAGM, the federal agency that in addition to Voice of America oversees other U.S.-funded international broadcasters including Radio Free Asia...
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With Drumpf, the hits just keep coming. He almost never wins in court.
Yet another glaring federal judgment confirming what is a culture of criminal negligence
#Nothing that this cosplay #SPECTRE regime does is legal
We must not let anyone #ever forget that
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