Reversal: Judge Lamberth orders VOA restoration

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the administration to restore Voice of America’s operations and return its sidelined staff to work. He gave the agency that runs VOA one week to submit a plan to put the broadcaster back on the air. The order targets the move that had shelved 1,042 of VOA’s 1,147 employees.

The ruling follows his finding a week earlier that Kari Lake lacked the legal authority to run the agency and cut staff. He said officials offered no principled basis for sidelining the workforce, and he also said he lacked the power to reinstate the hundreds of independent contractors who were terminated.

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