A conservative federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's state media chief from firing a key official, in yet another blow to the Trump administration's bid to dismantle these media services.

According to CNN, Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the reinstatement of Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz, reversing — at least for now — U.S. Agency for Global Media chief Kari Lake's attempt to fire him.

Nonetheless, Lamberth left open a potential way the Trump administration could still oust him.

"Abramowitz can only be removed by a majority vote of the VOA’s advisory board, according to Lamberth’s decision. But there’s a catch: The Trump administration fired the broadcaster’s entire board earlier this year," reported Liam Reilly. “To the extent the Board’s current lack of quorum institutes a practical barrier to removing Abramowitz, the Broadcast Act gives the President a straightforward remedy: replacing the removed members,” Lamberth wrote in his decision.

Since being appointed to head up the global media agency, Lake, a former Phoenix news anchor who has run multiple failed MAGA campaigns for statewide office in Arizona, has worked to dismantle and defund as many as possible of the U.S. state-run broadcasts like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

These services, which date to World War II and are used to inform people abroad of U.S. issue positions and values, are further potentially undermined as Lake has moved for a partnership between them and the far-right news network One America News, which has repeatedly pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election.