UPDATED, with comment from CPB: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said that three members will remain on its board, even though a federal judge turned down their motion to block Donald Trump from firing them.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss wrote that the CPB had failed to meet the threshold to issue a preliminary injunction to halt Trump’s effort to remove Sony’s Tom Rothman, as well as Laura Ross and Diane Kaplan.

But in his decision, Moss cautioned that Trump still would not be able to wrest control of the board, and also noted that the corporation had recently changed its bylaws that restricts the president’s actions.

The judge wrote that “the president is not free to remove directors and then unilaterally to appoint their replacements, thereby using his power to remove

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