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Subject: Re: Liberals ignore judges when it suits them
From: marika <marika5000@gmail.com>
Organization: Forte - www.forteinc.com
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:41:52 GMT
NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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> The Trump administration Department of Justice has filed suit against
> three former board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
> (CPB) who were fired in late April,
I thought it was performative to begin with
And nothing else
but the DOJ claims they are still
> acting as if they were not.
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> The suit is filed in the federal court in the District of Columbia,
> where the defendants sought to have their jobs preserved, but the
> court ruled against them.
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> The DOJ raises that issue in its suit to have the three removed from
> the CPB offices.
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> "Defendants are defiantly acting as if the Court granted the relief
> the Court denied  raising the question of why they bothered to seek
> preliminary relief and consume the resources of the Court and the
> parties if they were simply going to ignore any adverse ruling."
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> The Trump administration says the three have continued to act as
> though they were still legitimate members of the CPB board,
> "participating in board meetings, voting on resolutions and other
> business that comes before the board, and presenting themselves to the
> public as board members."
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> The DOJ labeled their actions as "manifestly unlawful."
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> The three have already been fired. The suit seeks to have the federal
> judge who upheld that decision earlier again verify they've been fired
> but also allow their removal from maintaining a presence at the CPB
> offices.
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> The three board members are identified in the suit as Laura Ross,
> Thomas Rothman, and Diane Kaplan. They are among a group of Biden
> appointees to federal positions who are balking at being handed
> dismissal notices from the Trump administration.
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> https://www.newsmax.com/politics/doj-cpb-board-members/2025/07/16/id/1218954/
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