This ruling treats Lake’s tenure less as hard-nosed reform than as an unlawful end-run around the law. “The Court finds that these expansive delegations were an unlawful effort to transform Lake into the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media in all but name.” Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Judge “The judge’s ruling that Kari Lake’s actions shall have no force or effect is a powerful step toward undoing the damage she has inflicted on this American institution that we love.” Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper “The American people gave President Trump a mandate to cut bloated bureaucracy, eliminate waste, and restore accountability to government.” Kari Lake

🐍📺🪓#KariLakeLies Judge Royce Lamberth ruled Kari Lake unlawfully ran USAGM, voiding many actions, including VOA layoffs. The court said Trump’s team tried to make her CEO “in all but name” while gutting a congressionally mandated news agency. #VOA #USAGM #CorruptClowns #HandsOffJournalism

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Journalism is NOT a crime.
How about torturing, taking away people’s constitutional right to protest, filing hoax charges against Justice seeking citizens?
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Turkish courts tend to misrepresent slogans chanted in any protest as criminal activity. It is not a crime to repeat that Journalism is not a crime!
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Journalists standing trial all complained about ill treatment by the police as they said they were handcuffed at their backs, insulted and cursed at -
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Attending a public protest including memorials is a constitutional right, journalist Can Papila repeated during his trial.
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Journalist Osman Akın and others underlined that the memorial had not even started when the police approached to detain them.

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Here’s what journalist Enes Sezgin said in court, referring to wars in Ukraine, and Palestine;

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We cannot allow lawsuits set against journalists become commonplace! Journalism is NOT a crime! Let us walk you through the absurdities of the case filed after the memorial of two Kurdish journalists👇
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Let’s have a closer look at what happened in the court case that involved 11 journalists who attended the memorial of two colleagues killed in Northern Syria. 👇

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