Colorado Public Radio: In December, Colorado Public Radio (CPR) along with NPR, Aspen Public Radio and KSUT Public Radio, appeared at a hearing for their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order, “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.” 

Today, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled in favor of the stations, declaring that the order violated the First Amendment. 

CPR and its partners in the lawsuit, National Public Radio, Inc. v. Trump, argued that the entire public media system has a First Amendment right to be free from government attempts to control speech, as well as from retaliation aimed at punishing protected speech. 

“It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch,” Judge Moss said in the ruling.

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