First it was NPR and now PBS is punching back legally at Donald Trump ’s desire to slash funding to public broadcasters.

In an “injunctive and other expedited relief” seeking document jus filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, the Public Broadcast Service and Northern Minnesota Public TV (Lakeland PBS) are declaring Trump’s Executive Order of May 1, 2025 to be illegal and unconstitutional.

Inked with much fanfare, Trump’s executive order of earlier this month directed federal agencies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt federal funding for NPR and PBS, as the president has alleged that the entities trafficked in “left-wing propaganda.”

Sorry Mr. President, but that’s not the point says PBS, in so many words.

“A recent survey of a politically represent

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