The Corporation for Public Broadcasting filed a case against the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing three members of the company’s board illegally dismissed.
In the case filed in Washington’s US District Court, the media agency said that the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, informed that their position had been canceled. The administration did not offer any justification for dismissal.
The case argued that President Trump did not have the right to dismiss directors from the corporation for public broadcasting, which a law of the Congress made more than half a century ago. The case has asked the Federal court to shoot.
“The corporation is not a government entity for public broadcasting, and its board members are not government officials,” the public broadcasting corporation said in a statement. “Since the CPB is not a federal agency in terms of the President’s authority, but a private corporation, we have filed a case to stop these shots.”
The directors of the corporation were nominated by the President for public broadcasting and confirmed by the Senate for a period of six years. The members of the board were all nominated by President Joseph and Biden Jr. on their current terms.
A representative of the White House had no immediate comment.
The case is the latest signs of excitement between Republican politicians and corporation for public broadcasting, which spend more than $ 500 million annually on companies like PBS, NPR and Radio and TV stations across the United States.
Republicans argued that the government should not fund the news programming that they believe that there is a liberal bias. NPR chief executive Catherine Meher and PBS chief executive Paula Carger defended their companies during the burning Congressional hearing in March.
Republicans have threatened to destroy the corporation for decades for public broadcasting, but lately the pressure has intensified. Congress has been launched to eliminate public media taxpayers’ funds, and the White House is planning to nail more than $ 1 billion for public broadcasting in the United States.
According to the case, the White House emails went to Laura G. Ross, Diane Kaplan and Thomas E Rathman on Monday to the directors. The email told them that they were removing “on behalf of President Donald J Trump”.
“I am writing to inform you that your position in the corporation for public broadcasting has been implemented immediately,” Read the email, which was sent by the Deputy Director Trent Mors of the President’s Employees for the President’s Executive Office according to the case. “Thank you for your service.”
Attempts to shake the corporation board for Mr Trump’s public broadcast reflect his aggressive approach to remake Washington companies. The President made similar efforts at the Voice of America and the US Institute of Peace and both were seen with legal resistance.
In his case -in his case, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has asked the court for a temporary control order that forbids the White House to interfere with the company’s management or activities. The hearing on the allegations in Washington was scheduled on Tuesday afternoon.
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