U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia gave the administration until Aug. 13 to explain how it will get VOA working again. The outlet that dates back to World War II has been largely dark since March.
Lamberth said the administration needs to show what it is doing with the $260 million Congress appropriated for VOA’s operations this year.
Legitimacy is not earned through merit but maintained through a monopoly on violence. To truly delegitimize a branch, there must be a credible threat of violence that can surpass its capacity to enforce authority. Whether that authority is legitimate becomes irrelevant if it’s unchallenged. There is no debate with a failed state
to be america the government has to follow the constitution. Power which can involve violence allows keeping power but legitamacy is divorced from it. For example china is not legitimately part of imperial china as there was a revolution and that was left behind. Similarly russia is not part of its imperial past. The US is not legitamately part of the first nations or the british empire as those ties were cut. Power over a region does not grant legitimacy for a particular historical era.