Trump is determined to defund NPR and PBS. He claims they are radical, far-left media outlets. The federal funding these media receive is funneled through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In his effort to control CPB, Trump told three members of the board of CPB that they were fired. Trump intends to control every outlet of public information, either by threatening their funding or (if private) suing to intimidate them. This is fascism.
The CPB board sued and said that it was created by Congress to be independent of political direction.
A federal district judge in DC, appointed by Obama, issued a decision that caused both sides to claim victory. The decision said that the board members would not suffer irreparable harm if removed, but that CPB is an independent agency. The judge declined to block the firings but CPB treated the ruling as a victory for its independence.
Brian Stelter of CNN described the decision:
Yesterday a federal judge declined to immediately intervene in Trump’s attempt to remove three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members, “ruling the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a strong likelihood the firings were unlawful or that they would suffer irreparable harm,” The Hill’s Sarah Fortinsky reports.
“But CPB officials celebrated the ruling as a win, pointing to part of the ruling that acknowledges that ‘Congress intended to preclude the President (or any subordinate officials acting at his direction) from directing, supervising, or controlling the Corporation.'” The entity’s statement on the matter is titled “Court Recognizes CPB’s Independence.”
The bottom line: CPB is keeping its board members in place and continuing to fight.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
For Trump and the right wing mob bosses, telling the truth, being fair and balanced is an affront to their twisted view of reality.
To quote Harry Truman: “I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it’s hell.”
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REPUBLICANS HAVE FOUND THE WAY TO STOP FEDERAL COURTS FROM BLOCKING TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND THE WAY TO REVERSE ALL EXISTING INJUNCTIONS:
The MOST IMPORTANT item in the Republican’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is buried at the bottom of Page 562 in the 1,116-page bill.
If this item passes in the bill, then, as Robert Reich points out, Trump becomes King of America, immune from the federal district courts ruling against his Executive Orders. Trump will rule by decree and Congress and the federal courts are of no importance.
Erwin Chemerinsky, the Dean of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, says that “It’s important to note the provision applies retroactively. This means every federal court injunction or Temporary Restraining Order that waived the security requirement would be rendered unenforceable.”
Ib short: All the injunctions that have already been issued against Trump’s Executive Orders will be eliminated, and no future injunctions will be issued. Trump will rule by Executive Order with no restraints. He will be King of America.
Unfortunately, Rule 65(c) will almost certainly be passed as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.
With that, the American Revolution to save Americans from being ruled by a king, will be lost.
That item on Page 562 invokes enforcement of Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c).
That little-known Rule says that a federal court can ONLY issue an injunction AFTER a plaintiff has POSTED A BOND to cover the costs of damages that an injunction could have on the party against which the injunction was issued if subsequent appeals overturn the injunction.
UNFORTUNATELY, NAIVE SENATE DEMOCRATS think that there’s nothing to worry about because the Bill’s provision for invoking Rule 65(c) doesn’t relate to budgetary issues and therefore will be dropped from the final Big Beautiful Bill because of “The Byrd Rule”.
BUT, the Byrd Rule only ALLOWS — IT DOESN’T REQUIRE — that items deemed not to have a direct budgetary consequence be removed from a bill.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS if a Democrat challenges the invoking of Rule 65(c) in the budget bill as a violation the Byrd Rule: First, the Senate Parliamentarian is asked for an opinion, then the Senate’s Presiding Officer makes a ruling that can either follow OR IGNORE the Parliamentarian’s advice, and finally, the full Senate can decide whether or not to follow the Presiding Officer’s ruling.
Because the Senate’s Presiding Officer and majority are Republican, the Senate WILL KEEP THE PROVISION to invoke Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c) — and that will stop federal court lawsuits against Trump’s Executive Order decrees.
It’s clear that Senate Democrats (1) don’t understand the consequences of invoking Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c); and (2) don’t understand how the Byrd Rule works.
Text, email, phone your representatives in the Senate and House to fight with all that they have to delete this provision in the BBB…or practice saying “Sieg Heil” — because you’ll need it.
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