US judge blocks Trump’s efforts to close the international intelligence service | Freedom of the press news

The administration of the district judges orders the restoration of the capacity of the radio, which were concluded for claims for “left -wing bias”.

A federal judge has explained that US President Donald Trump illegally stopped the operation of The Voice of America (VOA), an international international intelligence service created by the Congress.

In a decision on Tuesday, the US district judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Trump government to restore the capacity of the 83-year-old broadcaster to the level before Trump lowered the financing and dismissed numerous personnel lettings.

In a court registration in March, in which it was found that all 1,300 employees had been transferred to administrative leave, the VOA lawyers said that the broadcaster was provided that the broadcaster will report the news that reported “truthfully, impartial and objectively”, and pushed back against the demands of the Trump administration that they attributed a “left bias” and “pro-American” start-up.

Judge Lamberth also ordered the administration to restore the capacity of two other channels, which were also financed by the Federal Authority for Global Media, Radio -Free Asia and the nearby easten Broadcasting networks, while these complaints make progress.

The judge also denied a similar request for two additional networks, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Open Technology Fund.

Trump and its allies have interpreted federal funds to reduce programs and agencies within the government that they do not like and that do not like and force and force the greater ideological compliance with media organizations and universities on the prerequisite of combating what the administration represents as “left” views. Kari Lake, a close ally of Trump, was also responsible for the agency for global media.

The administration closed the VOA in March and initiated financing cuts that Lamberth said, reflected a “hasty, indiscriminately”.

A union that represents the employee of the Global media agency celebrated the decision as a “strong confirmation of the role that independent journalism plays in promoting democracy and fighting dissinformation”.

The VOA was founded for the first time during the Second World War to meet the US government and later used to project pro-us views in countries around the world during the Cold War, a story that some prompted some to criticize the network as a means of promoting US interests around the world.

“This simple mission (which provides impartial news) is powerful for those who live all over the world, without access to a free press and without the ability to recognize what really happens,” wrote the lawyers from VOA.

Many other institutions created during the post-war period to project the political and cultural influence of the United States around the world, such as the humanitarian aid agency USAID, were also attacked by a Trump government that sees it as ideological enemies or sources of bureaucratic bloating.

After the Tech billionaire and the Trump Aally Elon Musk had largely expressed that the international assistance group had a “Viper -Nest of radical Marxists who hate America”, the international assistant group.