PBS Sues Trump Administration Over Funding Cut Directive (2)

The Public Broadcasting Service said President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the end of its taxpayer subsidies violates the First Amendment and federal law, according to a new lawsuit Friday.

Trump’s May 1 executive order violates its constitutional protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, PBS says in its complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. PBS alleges that Trump is retaliating against it due to “perceived political slights in news coverage.”

The executive order “makes no attempt to hide the fact that it is cutting ...