Ep 215 — DOJ, Why Are You Like This?

About this episode

The episode discusses recent legal developments involving the US Agency for Global Media and various court cases related to political figures and journalistic independence.

Lots of legal news out of US Agency for Global Media, the parent agency for Voice of America. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake was never legally appointed CEO of USAGM, and thus her orders shutting the sub-agencies down and firing all the employees were null and void. The government appealed , but in the sloppiest way possible. Now the agency is getting sued again for violating the firewall protecting journalistic independence, forcing the networks to air AI slop praising Trump. But Kari Lake has an answer for that, and it is to call the judge a fatso. Judges in the District of New Jersey have appointed longtime prosecutor Robert Frazer as US Attorney. And so far, Attorney General Bondi hasn’t fired him. Judge Roy Altman, a Trump appointee, seems disinclined to put an end to Trump’s trollsuits right out of the gate. He’s allowing the case against the BBC to proceed to discovery. And he dismissed the complaint against Capital One for tortious debanking, but allowed Trump 90 days to conduct discovery and refile. MAIN SHOW: We’ve got an update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The government says it has to send him to Liberia (where he does not agree to go) instead of Costa Rica…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Dye

Topics covered

• legal news
• government agency
• journalistic independence
• court rulings
• political commentary
• Trump-related lawsuits

Keywords

• Kari Lake
• Judge Royce Lamberth
• US Agency for Global Media
• journalistic independence
• Trump lawsuits
• Olivier v. City of Brandon
• Kilmar Abrego Garcia
• Secretary Marco Rubio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Agency for Global Media, Voice of America, BBC, Capital One

Places: Liberia, Costa Rica, District of New Jersey

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