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PBS does not go hand in hand with Trump's strong man's game, and the network that has marked history with children's programs such as the district of Mister Rogers and Sesame Street defends the Constitution while Trump tries to withdraw their funding.
According to the trial:
Regardless of political disagreements on the role of public television, our Constitution and our laws prohibit the president from serving as a arbitrator of the content of PBS programming, including trying to undo PBS.
Indeed, since the congress has laid the foundations of public television growth over 50 years ago, it has repeatedly protected the flow of federal funds against political interference by filtering them by a non -federal, non -profit and non -partisan entity – the public dissemination company (“CPB”) – and providing for long -term credits. For fear that the executive power has no doubt to influence CPB's decision -making, the Congress has promulgated a specific “[p]Rohibition “: no” department, agency, agency or employee of the United States “can” exercise management, supervision or control over public telecommunications, or more [CPB] Or one of its beneficiaries “, including with regard to” the content or distribution of public telecommunications programs and services “. 47 USC § 398 (a), (c) (the accents added).
The work rapes not only these simple statutory restrictions, but also the first amendment. The OE does not try to hide the fact that it cuts the flow of funds to PBS due to the content of the PBS programming and the desire to modify the content of the word. It is a blatant discrimination from point of view and a violation of the private editorial discretion of the member stations of the PBS and the PBS. The work also seeks to impose an unconstitutional condition upon receipt by the stations of PBS members of the federal funds by prohibiting them from using federal funds to access PBS programming and services. And the EO feels reprisals because, among other things, perceived the light political in media coverage. Everything transgresses the protection of the first amendment to discourse and the freedom of the press.
PBS does not continue the Trump administration or an agency. PBS names the president himself and the members of his administration in their trial.
The public distribution company is a private company. Trump tries to control and Found a private company.
Trump's actions are the height of undemocratic behavior. PBS is literally free media. People don't have to pay to watch PBS. Americans do not need a television or internet subscription to watch PBS.
The public broadcasting system is a unifying form of non -partisan media and accessible to all, which is why Trump wants to destroy it.
Whether it is to purge transcriptions of the White House or not to provide details on administration activities, a goal of Trump's presidency is to restrict the information flow to keep people less informed.
PBS plays a vital role in IT and education of Americans of all ages, and their resistance to the seizure of Trump's power is of vital importance for American democracy and society.
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