{"id":62686,"date":"2025-04-22T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62686"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:52:51","slug":"judge-the-dismantling-of-the-voa-stops-and-employees-can-go-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/judge-the-dismantling-of-the-voa-stops-and-employees-can-go-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: The Dismantling Of The VOA Stops And Employees Can Go Back To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published by SWLing.com contributor Paul Walker<\/p>\n

From Politico:<\/p>\n

\u00a0A federal judge agreed Tuesday to block the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America, the 83-year-old international news service created by Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the administration illegally required Voice of America to cease operations for the first time since its World War II-era inception.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Their article is here: https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/voice-of-america-donald-trump-00303983<\/a>)<\/p>\n

From The Washington Post:<\/p>\n

Staffers at the government-funded Voice of America news service can go back to work, a federal judge in Washington ruled on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another article is here: https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/updates\/voa-pi-granted\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Associated Press Story:\u00a0 https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voice-of-america-trump-f30c48df0c16de622ec5fd99ee6c627c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Published by SWLing.com contributor Paul Walker From Politico: \u00a0A federal judge agreed Tuesday to block the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America, the 83-year-old international news service created by Congress. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the administration illegally required Voice of America to cease operations for the first time since its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[10,182],"class_list":["post-62686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shortwave-radio","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gj4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62690,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-sampling-of-coverage-federal-judge-orders-usagm-staff-reinstated\/","url_meta":{"origin":62686,"position":0},"title":"A Sampling of Coverage: Federal Judge Orders USAGM Staff Reinstated","author":"Thomas","date":"April 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of the SWLing Post have been sharing various articles concerning the recent ruling by a federal judge, which directs the Trump administration to reinstate the USAGM staff. 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