Voice of America journalists sued politician and former TV news anchor Kari Lake Friday over the closure of the United States Agency for Global Media.
The USAGM doesn’t have authority to “shut itself down,” according to the complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, almost a week after 1,300 journalists and employees were forced to stop working.
The Trump administration was expressly motivated by its opposition “to the content of VOA’s journalistic output—in short: rank viewpoint discrimination,” the complaint said.
The administration is breaching the legally-mandated firewall between the government and federally-funded ...