NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House [View all]
Source: NPR
May 27, 2025 8:07 AM ET
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.
"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the legal brief for the public broadcasters. "The Order targets NPR and PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news and other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"
The line about the "wolf" was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The lawsuit says the administration is usurping Congress' right to direct how federal money will be spent and to pass laws. It names President Trump, White House budget director Russel Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Maria Rosario Jackson, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, as defendants. The White House did not immediately have a comment on the suit.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban
Link to SUIT (PDF viewer) - https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=25953971-npr-and-colorado-public-radio-stations-lawsuit-against-trump-administration
As an interesting note - they linked to the statute that applies to the CPB - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/398
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