Corporation For Public Broadcasting Sues Donald Trump Over Attempt To Remove Tom Rothman And Others From Board

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting filed suit against Donald Trump and other members of his administration for their efforts to remove three members of its board, including Sony’s Tom Rothman.

The corporation, the independent entity set up to distribute federal funds to public broadcasting entities, is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop Trump’s firing of Rothman and board members Laura Ross and Diane Kaplan.

CPB’s attorneys wrote, “Put simply, Congress conceived CPB as a vehicle for infusing federal money into public broadcasting without the introduction of government direction or control, with Congress reserving for itself the oversight responsibility for the CPB by, among other things, controlling the appropriations for CPB and public broadcasting. Moreover, Congress protected the CPB from the executive branch by withholding from CPB any form, pure or quasi, of legislative, judicial, or regulatory power.”

Read the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lawsuit.

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