NPR sues Trump White House over executive order targeting public media

NPR and a trio of Colorado nationalist vigor stations sued the Trump medication successful national tribunal connected Tuesday implicit the enforcement bid seeking to cease each national backing to NPR and PBS.

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President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid earlier this period instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and different national agencies "to cease Federal backing for NPR" and different nationalist media outlets. NPR has vowed to situation the bid "by each means available," and CEO Katherine Maher took action. 

"The Executive Order is simply a wide usurpation of the Constitution and the First Amendment's protections for state of code and association, and state of the press. It is an affront to the rights of NPR and NPR's 246 Member stations, which are locally owned, nonprofit, noncommercial media organizations serving each 50 states and territories. Today, we situation its constitutionality successful the nation's autarkic courts," Maher said successful a statement. 

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