{"id":71751,"date":"2025-04-23T21:08:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=71751"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:08:59","slug":"us-court-blocks-trumps-voa-shutdown-call-it-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/us-court-blocks-trumps-voa-shutdown-call-it-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court blocks Trump&#8217;s VOA shutdown, call it unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/donald-trump-sworn-in-as-47th-us-president\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> has suffered another legal setback after a US court suspended one of his executive orders. According to international media, a federal judge has blocked Trump\u2019s order to shut down the Voice of America (VOA), declaring it unconstitutional and blocking its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The court noted that due to cuts in government funding, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-streamlines-visa-process-with-new-mobile-app\/\">VOA<\/a> was unable to fulfill its journalistic mission for the first time in its 80-year history. Judge Royce Lamberth said the shutdown ignored the impact on employees, journalists and global media audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered all employees and contractors of VOA, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks to be reinstated to their original positions. The judge also ruled that the administration violated the International Broadcasting Act and Congress\u2019 authority to allocate funds.<\/p>\n<p>VOA\u2019s White House bureau chief and lead plaintiff, Patsy Vadakoswara, welcomed the ruling, expressing concern that the government might appeal. She reiterated her commitment to resisting VOA\u2019s unlawful silencing until the organization returns to its core mission.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore jobs and funding for all affected staff. More than 1,300 employees \u2014 including nearly 1,000 journalists \u2014 were initially furloughed following Trump\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has accused the media organizations of being \u201canti-Trump\u201d and \u201cextremist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, VOA has become a globally recognized media outlet. Trump had long criticized VOA and other media groups for alleged bias and appointed political ally Michael Peck \u2014 who had supported his claims of election fraud \u2014 to lead the agency at the start of his second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has suffered another legal setback after a US court suspended one of his executive orders. According to international media, a federal judge has blocked Trump\u2019s order to shut down the Voice of America (VOA), declaring it unconstitutional and blocking its implementation. The court noted that due to cuts in government funding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":71752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,28113],"class_list":["post-71751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-voa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71753,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71751\/revisions\/71753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}