NPR sues Trump over executive order cutting federal funding

[Zincwarrior]

No, Biden pardoned his own crime family.

Again, dude your credibility is gone.

Which does not endanger the Republic.

 

[airplanemechanic]

FUNNY THING is that most of those who are complaining NEVER turn their radio to NPR.
One day heard them spend 30 min explaining, tax dollars & insurance co in regard to national disasters.
Something had never heard of before.
We do not believe every thing we hear, from any one. There is always two sides to every story.
Trying too be open minded helps with getting a better information.

I absolutely have heard NPR. National progressive radio. I've heard them going back to the Bush years. They are anti-Trump, anti-republican, pro ANYTHING DEMOCRAT. I can only take the commercials, anything else is pure propaganda paid for by the taxpayers.

Shut 'em down.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Which does not endanger the Republic.

Neither does pardoning people who were arrested and imprisoned for walking through the capitol 4 years ago.

We happen to think the president pardoning his own family for crimes they so said didn't even commit is the definition of endangering the republic. When the leader of the free worlds own family needs a presidential pardon for crimes, we are in trouble.

How many family members did Trump pardon?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

No, Biden pardoned his own crime family.

Again, dude your credibility is gone.

He's a left loon. Stupid as a stump

 

[LeftofLeft]

MAGA controls both houses.

The pendulum always swings and Democrats will be back

 

[johnwk]

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

Of course, NPR's assertions are not grounded in the terms of our written Constitution.

The truth is, there is no provision listed beneath Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, [Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes] which remotely allows our Federal government to tax and spend to finance a public broadcasting system.

In fact, with respect to our federal Constitution and researching the record of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, we find Delegate Charles Pickney, on August 18th, proposed a broad power “To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences”. But this proposal was rejected by the Convention in favor of a limited grant of power expressed in Article 1, Section 8, Cl.8, of the proposed constitution. The limited power, later agreed upon by ratification of our Constitution authorizes Congress "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts . . . by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." A power not even remotely authorizing our federal government to tax and spend for what NPR alleges Trump may not refuse to finance. Keep in mind our President is required to make certain our Constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof, are followed. Not laws made to subvert our Constitution and its defined and limited grants of power.


And why did out Founders refuse to grant the power which NPR indirectly asserts is in our Constitution?


"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.” See: Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Representative Page.

When NPR can point to the wording in our Constitution authorizing Congress to tax a spend to finance their operation, then, and only then, ought our Courts agree to listen to their case.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Yes because COngress appropriated those funds. Congress has the power of the purse not the Executive. They can pass a budget going forward that provides no funding.

Please remind yourself of this when you want to post about Trumps budget. Thanks in advance.

 

[egp320i]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

why do they need federal funds? non-profit, let their rich liberal friends fund them, not the taxpayer

 

[Godboy]

Becuase those funds have already been allocated by Congress, and there is a post Nixon Federal Law that makes it illegal.

...but they werent being objective. They havent been for decades. They are purely left wing. We arent going to fund it anymore.

 

[TimFitz]

Are they entitled to that funding?

Yes.

 

[TimFitz]

I absolutely have heard NPR. National progressive radio. I've heard them going back to the Bush years. They are anti-Trump, anti-republican, pro ANYTHING DEMOCRAT. I can only take the commercials, anything else is pure propaganda paid for by the taxpayers.

Shut 'em down.

There are no commercials.

 

[TimFitz]

Of course, NPR's assertions are not grounded in the terms of our written Constitution.

The truth is, there is no provision listed beneath Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, [Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes] which remotely allows our Federal government to tax and spend to finance a public broadcasting system.

In fact, with respect to our federal Constitution and researching the record of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, we find Delegate Charles Pickney, on August 18th, proposed a broad power “To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences”. But this proposal was rejected by the Convention in favor of a limited grant of power expressed in Article 1, Section 8, Cl.8, of the proposed constitution. The limited power, later agreed upon by ratification of our Constitution authorizes Congress "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts . . . by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." A power not even remotely authorizing our federal government to tax and spend for what NPR alleges Trump may not refuse to finance. Keep in mind our President is required to make certain our Constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof, are followed. Not laws made to subvert our Constitution and its defined and limited grants of power.


And why did out Founders refuse to grant the power which NPR indirectly asserts is in our Constitution?


"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.” See: Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Representative Page.

When NPR can point to the wording in our Constitution authorizing Congress to tax a spend to finance their operation, then, and only then, ought our Courts agree to listen to their case.

What are you parroting here?

 

[mudwhistle]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

It's a horse shit case.

NPR has no right to federal funding.

The feds gave the cash to them to keep them spewing their leftist nonsense.

 

[ThisIsMe]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

So we can expect federal funding for fox and newsmax next?

 

[TimFitz]

So we can expect federal funding for fox and newsmax next?

Neither of them are news organizations.

 

[mudwhistle]

So we can expect federal funding for fox and newsmax next?

Liberals want to put them out of business.....not fund them.

I haven't been listening to the radio much the last 6 months....and I turned it on last week and there are zero conservative talk-show programs on, coming out of Nashville or KY, in the morning or at noon.
Even before Rush died, several conservative talk-show hosts came down with cancer and COVID and their replacements weren't all that popular.
Glenn Beck is the only one left that I know of, but he does a podcast. He hasn't been on radio for almost 8 years.
I remember one popular station changed over to sports talk instead. Rush was pretty much the leader of conservative talk-radio, and when he died....most of the genre died with him.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Neither of them are news organizations.

As much as npr is

 

[ThisIsMe]

Liberals want to put them out of business.....not fund them.

I haven't been listening to the radio much the last 6 months....and I turned it on last week and there are zero conservative talk-show programs on, coming out of Nashville or KY, in the morning or at noon.
Even before Rush died, several conservative talk-show hosts came down with cancer and COVID and their replacements weren't all that popular.
Glenn Beck is the only one left that I know of, but he does a podcast. He hasn't been on radio for almost 8 years.
I remember one popular station changed over to sports talk instead. Rush was pretty much the leader of conservative talk-radio, and when he died....most of the genre died with him.

Well, to be fair, there isnt much political talk radio on terrestrial radio, on either side, anymore. Mostly you have to go to siriusxm or podcasts. Granted, I haven't really listened to terrestrial radio in years. I listen to satellite radio exclusively now.

I used to remember years ago, you'd hear Glenn Beck, rush, Mike church, Michael Savage and Neil Boortz (libertarian). Doesn't seem like you hear much about people like them anymore.

 

[TimFitz]

Please remind yourself of this when you want to post about Trumps budget. Thanks in advance.

What? That makes no sense.

 

[mudwhistle]

Well, to be fair, there isnt much political talk radio on terrestrial radio, on either side, anymore. Mostly you have to go to siriusxm or podcasts. Granted, I haven't really listened to terrestrial radio in years. I listen to satellite radio exclusively now.

I used to remember years ago, you'd hear Glenn Beck, rush, Mike church, Michael Savage and Neil Boortz (libertarian). Doesn't seem like you hear much about people like them anymore.

One of them is dead (Rush).
Glenn Beck almost died because of illness.
So they chased him off radio and now he's out there doing his thing like Tucker Carlson.
Thank Obama for this.