The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of the company’s board.
In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the media organization said the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated. The administration did not offer any justification for the dismissals.
The lawsuit argued that President Trump did not have the authority to fire directors from the organization, a taxpayer-backed, private company created by an act of Congress created more than a half-century ago that funds public media organizations across the United States.
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