A federal judge ordered the parent agency of the Voice of America to return the network’s 1,042 full-time employees who had been put on leave back to work by Monday, ruling that Trump administration official Kari Lake’s efforts to dismantle the news outlet were ”arbitrary and capricious.”
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth last month ruled that Lake had unlawfully taken on almost all powers of the chief executive of the network’s federal parent, called the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and therefore that her actions since joining as senior adviser to the agency were invalid. She has since taken on various senior titles at the agency. For several months, she called herself the acting CEO, a position which it does not appear she is legally eligible to fill, as NPR first reported last August. She most recently has been its deputy CEO
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