Public Broadcasting Service on Friday sued the Trump Administration over the president’s recent executive order to cancel federal funding for public broadcasters like PBS and National Public Radio.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. and obtained by TheWrap, said the president’s executive order violates its First Amendment rights; the filing also claimed President Trump does not have the authority to make decisions over funding for public broadcasters.

President Trump, the lawsuit added, was engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” because he has claimed PBS is biased against him and other Republicans.

“PBS disputes those charged assertions in the strongest possible terms,” the lawsuit said. “But regardless of any policy disagreements over the role of public tele

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