US District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media, voiding her efforts to dismantle Voice of America.The court found that Lake was ineligible to serve as acting CEO from July to November 2025 because she lacked the required Senate confirmation.This ruling nullifies mass layoffs and contract terminations that reduced the eighty-year-old broadcaster from forty-nine languages to only four.Reporters Without Borders praised the decision as a win for press freedom while Lake vowed to appeal the ruling she called judicial activism.