NPR sues Trump over executive order cutting funding for public broadcasting

is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the tech-right. NPR sued President Donald Trump over his executive order cutting federal funding for NPR and PBS. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court by NPR and public radio stations in Colorado, claims that Trump’s effort to slash the broadcasters’ congressionally granted funding is unconstitutional. It also alleges that Trump violated the First Amendment by characterizing NPR and PBS as “biased media” and rescinding their federal funding as a result. “It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment,” the complaint reads. “‘But this wolf comes as a wolf.’” Trump has accused NPR and PBS of having content that is not “fair, accurate, or unbiased,” the complaint claims, and his and other administration officials’ comments about public broadcasters “only drive home” the executive order’s “retaliatory purpos ... Read full article.