NPR and PBS Win Injunction Against Trump Order to End Funding

National Public Radio Inc., Public Broadcasting Service, and others demonstrated that President Donald Trump’s anti-media funding executive order is unlawful, a Washington, D.C., federal court said Tuesday.

The executive order is unconstitutional because the president can’t use governmental power to direct federal agencies to bar grants in “retaliation for saying things that he does not like,” Judge Randolph D. Moss of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said. His order grants the plaintiffs a permanent injunction from the government implementing or enforcing the executive order’s instruction to cease funding NPR and PBS.