{"id":4858,"date":"2025-03-23T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/covington-burling-represents-media-nonprofit-seeking-tro-against-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:00:14","slug":"covington-burling-represents-media-nonprofit-seeking-tro-against-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/covington-burling-represents-media-nonprofit-seeking-tro-against-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Covington &#038; Burling Represents Media Nonprofit Seeking TRO Against Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Covington &amp; Burling, representing a nonprofit global news outlet, has filed a motion seeking to force the Trump administration to restore and disburse an $85 million federal grant to Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty as required by congressional appropriations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>\u201cRFE\/RL is suffering, and will continue to suffer, irreparable harm from this unlawful withholding of funds,\u201d counsel for the plaintiff alleged in the motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. \u201cBy declining to disburse funds lawfully appropriated by Congress, the Executive Branch is unconstitutionally encroaching on Congress\u2019s Appropriations Clause and Spending Clause authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Founded in 1950, RFE\/RL is a nonprofit news organization that historically receives the vast majority of its funding from the federal government. The organization typically uses federal grants to support its network of independent journalists covering news in Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan and other foreign countries in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covington &amp; Burling, representing a nonprofit global news outlet, has filed a motion seeking to force the Trump administration to restore and disburse an $85 million federal grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2585,5152,3328,410,1216,1215,1270,700,409],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-administration","tag-burling","tag-covington","tag-media","tag-nonprofit","tag-represents","tag-seeking","tag-tro","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}