Garrison Davis

But under the First Amendment, the government cannot use the power of the purse to, quote, punish or suppress disfavored expression by others.

writing that both the Supreme Court and the D.C.

Circuit Court have repeatedly observed that one, quote, may not deny a benefit to a person on the basis that infringes his constitutionally protected freedom of speech, even if he has no entitlement to that benefit, unquote.

The judge writes that...

bars them from all federally funded programs.

It does so, moreover, without regard to whether federal funds are used to pay for the nationwide interconnection systems, which serve as the technological backbone of public radio and television, to provide safety and security for journalists working in war zones, to support the emergency broadcast system, or to produce or distribute music, children's, or other educational programming or documentaries, unquote.

Now, besides setting a good legal precedent, this ruling won't have much in terms of immediate effects because the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was dissolved last month after being defunded by the Republican-controlled Congress.

That's not being reversed.

But this ruling could make it less difficult for PBS and NPR to receive money in the future, either from Congress or some federal agencies.

What's that sound?

Oh no, it's someone desecrating the legacy of The Clash by singing their worst song with different lyrics.

Seriously, though, I'm still angry.

To be fair to my entrance music, The Clash desecrated themselves by making that song.

Yeah, the moment they released that song, Joe Strummer cried when they played that song during Desert Storm.

And if he was alive today, he would be crying again.

Yeah.

So, okay, we actually do have tariff news, which is the first tariff news in a while.

But when we last spoke about the Supreme Court nullifying the Liberation Day tariffs and a significant chunk of the tariffs that Trump had been putting into effect, we said that there wasn't a plan really to get tariff refunds out and that it really hadn't been addressed other than by dissenting Supreme Court members.

We are sort of starting to see what that looks like after a series of rulings from trade courts.

Right now, it is a fiasco.