The U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot “force RFE/RL to shut down,” the judge wrote, “even if the President has told them to do so.”

A federal judge has put a stop, for now, to Donald Trump ‘s effort to abolish Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, one of the U.S.-funded broadcasting entities targeted by a presidential executive order.

Kari Lake, a senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, sent the organization a brief termination letter that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said likely violated the law.