Trump Loyalist REMOVED by GOP Judge (video commentary)

03/15/2026

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the ruling that voided Kari Lake’s entire tenure running the Voice of America’s parent agency. Judge Royce Lamberth — a Reagan appointee — granted summary judgment finding that Lake never had legal authority to serve as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media because Trump never nominated her for Senate confirmation, as required by the Constitution’s Appointments Clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. Every action she took — including the layoffs of over 1,000 journalists and staffers, cancellation of office leases, and gutting of broadcasting capabilities — is now void. The hosts explain what VOA actually does: a government-funded but editorially independent network that reaches 300 million listeners weekly in countries like China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran — originally created to fight Nazi propaganda. Lake, a serial election denier who lost races for both governor and Senate in Arizona, called the 82-year-old Reagan appointee an “activist judge” and vowed to appeal. The attorneys argue this is especially absurd given that Trump, now engaged in a war with Iran, could have used VOA as a soft power tool — instead he ordered it killed. They file it under the same playbook: install an unqualified loyalist, watch them fail, then dump them when it gets embarrassing.