NPR/PBS court ruling on funding

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3:51p, 4/1/26
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Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.
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3:58p, 4/1/26
Congress already cut their funding. This judge is just blowing smoke for the sake of it.
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In reply to B-1 83 • 3:59p, 4/1/26
B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.

It would help if you linked to the opinion so we can read it and decide for ourselves.
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4:00p, 4/1/26
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If there was anything unconstitutional it would go 100% the other way, as this is not free speech but government funded speech.
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In reply to HTownAg98 • 4:02p, 4/1/26
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HTownAg98 said:
B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.

It would help if you linked to the opinion so we can read it and decide for ourselves.

Here you go…..my bad.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694
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In reply to B-1 83 • 4:16p, 4/1/26
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B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.
NPR gets more than 1%. It's just that most of it comes from affiliated public radio stations who receive federal grants. It's just an accounting scheme to make it sound like their dollars don't come from the federal government.
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In reply to B-1 83 • 4:27p, 4/1/26
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B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.
Read article yesterday and the whole article was about how judge overturned it for free speech. And author was emphasizing that. It is a such a poorly worded decision because cutting funding is not restricting speech - and a publicly funded radio that was anything but free speech should lose government funding. A complete joke and not based on any actual law or legal precedent
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In reply to lb3 • 9:23a, 4/2/26
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lb3 said:
B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.

NPR gets more than 1%. It's just that most of it comes from affiliated public radio stations who receive federal grants. It's just an accounting scheme to make it sound like their dollars don't come from the federal government.

EXACTLY!!!
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9:51a, 4/2/26
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Congress should fund them 10 cents to comply with the judge's ruling and preserve free speech.
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12:39p, 4/2/26
NPR could have avoided all of this by shifting from far left to center. Just kidding !
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12:57p, 4/2/26
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Ain't letten my grandbabies watch liberal Elmo! Kongress should sen more funding to Curt Cameron!
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In reply to B-1 83 • 2:32p, 4/2/26
B-1 83 said:
Can someone explain how this is a free speech issue? They are both welcome to continue on and Trump didn't have their licenses yanked. As I recall, NPR gets 1% of their funding from the government and PBS gets like 15%.

Obama judge gonna' Obama judge, I guess, but this seems like a slam dunk overturn.


The ruling does nothing
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