A federal judge in D.C. on Tuesday blocked the White House from immediately exerting control over NPR and PBS just a day after President Donald Trump claimed to have the authority to fire most of the directors overseeing their parent company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss forbade the Trump administration from replacing three board members without providing at least two days’ notice to give the court time to potentially step in.
Trump, who has spent weeks asserting broad authority across the federal government, is attempting to take over the nonprofit that oversees NPR and the PBS. The fight could have immediate consequences for the operations of the country’s most prominent source of commercial-free news, educational kids TV programming and vetted popular learning apps used by small children.