{"id":69026,"date":"2026-03-08T14:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69026"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:01:18","slug":"judge-rules-that-trump-toady-kari-lakes-appointment-was-illegal-and-voids-all-of-her-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69026","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules that Trump Toady Kari Lake’s Appointment Was Illegal and Voids All of Her Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing for which Donald Trump has distinguished himself, it’s that he is indisputably the most media averse president in American history. And now the Trump regime’s Censorship Czar, Kari lake, has been repudiated in court (again) for her efforts to muzzle Voice of America (VOA), an essential distributor of American news to countries that stifle independent reporting such as Iran, where Trump is currently engaged in an unprovoked war.<\/p>\n

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Trump recruited Lake to run VOA’s parent, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), after she was firmly rejected by Arizonans for both governor and senator. While Trump\u2019s FCC boss, Brendan Carr, is strangling the free press domestically<\/a><\/strong>, Lake is the foreign flank of Trump\u2019s media gagging team. Impressed with her election denying prowess, Trump found her a position from which she could spew propaganda worldwide. Among her first official acts was to fire hundreds of experienced and dedicated VOA journalists and replace them with One America News, an ultra-MAGA, Trump-fluffing network.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, the attempts by Trump and Lake to stifle freedom of the press have themselves been stifled by the courts. In a new ruling Lake was forcefully rebuked by the judge in a case challenging her appointment to her USAGM post. On Saturday Reuters published an article<\/a><\/strong> with the headline “US judge voids 2025 actions taken by Kari Lake as Voice of America CEO, including job cuts.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“A federal judge ruled on Saturday that Kari Lake’s leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media for much of last year violated federal law, invalidating a sweeping series of actions she took to cut staff and end many operations at its Voice of America unit.<\/p>\n

“In another blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to diminish various government agencies, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs \u2014 including VOA journalists and a union representing federal employees \u2014 who argued that Lake’s appointment as acting CEO and actions she took in that role ran afoul of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.”<\/p>\n

“Lamberth ruled that Lake was ineligible to serve as acting CEO because she was not employed by USAGM when former CEO Amanda Bennett resigned in January 2025, and had not been confirmed by the Senate to any other federal post.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lake quickly put out a statement saying that she would appeal the ruling by the judge who she said “has a pattern of activist rulings.”<\/em> True to form, Lake is lying and smearing the judge’s reputation. But Lake is going to have a hard time painting Lamberth as a radical lefty jurist. To the contrary, he was nominated to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1987.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Voice of America, the USAGM oversees international broadcasting networks such as Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Radio Television Mart\u00ed, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Their programming is heard around the world in an effort to peacefully extend U.S. influence and combat authoritarianism. No wonder Trump hates it. Anything that would interfere with his own aspirations of authoritarianism triggers his wrath.<\/p>\n

At this particular moment in time, the value of these networks cannot be overstated. Trump is currently engaged in a war with Iran, where the Middle East Broadcasting Networks aired prior to his dismantling them. And Trump is also threatening to invade Cuba, the province of Radio Television Mart\u00ed. So he is severing vital channels of communications with the citizens of those countries when it is needed most.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the appeals courts will uphold these recent rulings that invalidate the efforts of Lake and Trump to decimate America’s international messaging capabilities. The last thing America needs now is to follow in the footsteps of Trump’s tyrannical idols and mentors, such as Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, and Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

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