BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit motions panel (April), on a 2-1 vote, blocks payment to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for its April work pending further litigation.
As with the earlier stays, Katsas and Rao are the majority, Pillard dissents.
RFE/RL is already seeking en banc consideration.
The panel previously granted an administrative stay in the RFE/RL case. Over the weekend, they granted stays pending appeal in four other U.S. Agency for Global Media cases.
Here is today's panel opinion:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...Judge Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, has had some time to think. In her dissent, she is more displeased.
This, though, is the real point. Pillard explains, simply and directly, the shell game that is going on here.
This is, she writes, nothing more than "a strategy to run down the clock, avoid complying with the existing TRO, and starve RFE/RL out of existence."
