Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran US media agency, voiding layoffs

[EvilEyeFleegle]

LOL! Kari Lake, she keeps turning up..always coming away with the loss.
Once again, the courts have shut her down:

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency

dnyuz.com

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in a 17-page opinion, granted summary judgment to a group of employees, led by Voice of America’s White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara, who sued Lake last year. Lamberth found that Lake, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, violated the Constitution’s appointments clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by helming the agency.

“The Court finds that these expansive delegations were an unlawful effort to transform Lake into the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media in all but name,” Lamberth wrote.

The decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats to the Trump administration’s year-long effort to dismantle USAGM, the federal agency that in addition to Voice of America oversees other U.S.-funded international broadcasters including Radio Free Asia.

Clean start violation removed.

--TK

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

LOL! Kari Lake, she keeps turning up..always coming away with the loss.
Once again, the courts have shut her down:

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency

dnyuz.com

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in a 17-page opinion, granted summary judgment to a group of employees, led by Voice of America’s White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara, who sued Lake last year. Lamberth found that Lake, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, violated the Constitution’s appointments clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by helming the agency.

“The Court finds that these expansive delegations were an unlawful effort to transform Lake into the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media in all but name,” Lamberth wrote.

The decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats to the Trump administration’s year-long effort to dismantle USAGM, the federal agency that in addition to Voice of America oversees other U.S.-funded international broadcasters including Radio Free Asia.

Clean start violation removed.

--TK

From the OP:

Lamberth, nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald M. Reagan, has repeatedly stymied Lake’s efforts to shut down the agency, ordering her to uphold her statutory obligations for broadcasting as set forth by Congress. The judge has on multiple occasions threatened to hold Lake in contempt of court for not cooperating with his orders, and ordered her and two other officials to be deposed last fall. Lake said in that eight-hour deposition that she learned of Trump’s executive order shrinking the agency the same day it was issued.

Lake’s tenure at USAGM has been troubled from the start. Because Trump fired members of the little-known, Senate-confirmed International Broadcasting Advisory Board that appoints the CEO of USAGM and the director of Voice of America, there was arguably no legal mechanism for placing her in either role.

 

[toobfreak]

LOL! Kari Lake, she keeps turning up..always coming away with the loss.

Yeah, how surprisingly true, and when she first appeared on the scene, I had her pegged as a big winner.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Yeah, how surprisingly true, and when she first appeared on the scene, I had her pegged as a big winner.

Not I.
I've always expected to see her indictment announced sometime.
She just has that air about herself....that she is one short step away from going rogue...and not in a good way~

 

[kyzr]

Eventually Trump and Article 2 will win. Let the DC district judges think they can throw their weight around.

 

[Independent thinker]

LOL! Kari Lake, she keeps turning up..always coming away with the loss.
Once again, the courts have shut her down:

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency

dnyuz.com

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in a 17-page opinion, granted summary judgment to a group of employees, led by Voice of America’s White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara, who sued Lake last year. Lamberth found that Lake, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, violated the Constitution’s appointments clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by helming the agency.

“The Court finds that these expansive delegations were an unlawful effort to transform Lake into the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media in all but name,” Lamberth wrote.

The decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats to the Trump administration’s year-long effort to dismantle USAGM, the federal agency that in addition to Voice of America oversees other U.S.-funded international broadcasters including Radio Free Asia.

Clean start violation removed.

--TK

That's OK. Bring them all back and then tell them what is expected of them. If they don't conform, we fire them.

 

[0311]

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that her ascension was an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/kari-lake-usagm-judge-00818165

Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the federal agency that oversees Voice of America — and her actions in that role were illegitimate, a federal judge ruled Saturday.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that Lake was ineligible to serve as USAGM’s acting CEO when she was formally elevated to the position on July 31 in an “acting capacity” and without Senate confirmation. She relinquished that position on Nov. 19.

Lamberth said any actions Lake took in that four-month timeframe must be treated as “void,” including an Aug. 29 reduction in USAGM’s workforce. Lamberth also invalidated actions Lake took when the agency’s previous acting CEO, Victor Morales, delegated nearly the entirety of his responsibilities to her, concluding that this was also an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

Once more time Conservatives, it is called "Advice and Consent". No Senate Approval, no legal appointment.

 

[Meister]

No Senate Approval, no legal appointment.

You could have just stated this. The left has been doing this a lot under the
Trump administration.

 

[Doc7505]

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that her ascension was an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/kari-lake-usagm-judge-00818165

Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the federal agency that oversees Voice of America — and her actions in that role were illegitimate, a federal judge ruled Saturday.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that Lake was ineligible to serve as USAGM’s acting CEO when she was formally elevated to the position on July 31 in an “acting capacity” and without Senate confirmation. She relinquished that position on Nov. 19.

Lamberth said any actions Lake took in that four-month timeframe must be treated as “void,” including an Aug. 29 reduction in USAGM’s workforce. Lamberth also invalidated actions Lake took when the agency’s previous acting CEO, Victor Morales, delegated nearly the entirety of his responsibilities to her, concluding that this was also an illegal end-run around the Senate’s advice and consent role.

Once more time Conservatives, it is called "Advice and Consent". No Senate Approval, no legal appointment.

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Democrats have a bad case of the ass with Kari Lake in Arizona.

 

[1srelluc]

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LOL! Kari Lake, she keeps turning up..always coming away with the loss.
Once again, the courts have shut her down:

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency

dnyuz.com

A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.

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