Headquarters of RFE/RL in Prague, Czech Republic. (By Mir Wais, from RFE/RL website) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, continuing to fight for its existence, welcomed a ruling today by a federal district court judge. It said Judge Royce Lamberth granted RFE/RL’s request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for Global Media. He ordered USAGM to disburse the rest of the agency’s congressionally appropriated funds for fiscal 2025. RFE/RL said Lamberth wrote that it was unprecedented for an agency to demand that new terms govern its working relationship with a grantee entity and then stop responding, “particularly when the agency is statutorily obligated to grant yearly congressional appropriations to that specific entity by name.” He cited USAGM’s “flagrant disregard for its funding responsibilities.” President/CEO Stephen Capus welcomed the ruling. “Time and again, the court has ruled in our favor on the basic issue of the release of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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