法官叫停特朗普2000万美元纳税人资助竞选广告
美国纽约曼哈顿联邦法院 10 月 11 日（周日晚）签发临时限制令，要求特朗普政府立即停止播出用纳税人资金制作的竞选广告，并取消所有剩余的广告排期，禁令自美东时间当晚 6 点 45 分起生效。
据 CNN 报道，作出裁决的是联邦地区法官 Jennifer Rochon。她批准了以无党派监督组织 Common Cause 为首的原告联盟提出的临时限制令申请。司法部曾在 10 月 10 日深夜向法庭表示，这轮广告投放原定 10 月 11 日周日晚结束，申请限制令已无必要；但 Rochon 法官认为，投放结束并不使诉讼失去意义，仍下令政府停止一切后续播出。
这批广告共获拨款 2000 万美元，资金来自美国海关与边境保护局（CBP），经由国土安全部拨付，并被归类为公共服务公告。国土安全部官员 Holly Mehringer 在提交法庭的宣誓声明中说，广告代理公司 LMD Agency Inc. 通过 10 月 11 日购买的媒体时段费用约为 1900 万美元，即已有约 1900 万美元纳税人资金实际支出。Mehringer 还说，国土安全部已指示 LMD 在 10 月 11 日之后不再购买新的广告时段，目前没有再投放的计划。
这批广告自 9 月下旬开播，至少 13 支竞选风格的广告在 CBS、CNN、MS NOW、Fox News、Fox 电视网及流媒体平台播出，内容包括特朗普宣传其政策主张、警告共产主义和与全球主义者的最终决战，片尾均标注由美国政府付费（Paid for by the U.S. Government）。据 CNN 此前报道，特朗普本人亲自参与挑选了部分广告画面。
广告开播后即引发两党议员关切。法律专家指出，动用国会拨款用于政治宣传是联邦法律明令禁止的行为。10 月 5 日，特朗普曾表示已决定自己掏钱，用个人资金和为 MAGA 公司筹集的款项支付这类爱国广告；但 6 天后，纳税人出资的广告仍在播出。
Rochon 法官的临时限制令有效期为 14 天，命令被告在此期间不得就涉案广告签订、续签或扩大任何制作、传播、投放协议。白宫方面尚未立即回应置评请求。此案关于广告合法性的最终裁决仍有待后续审理。
Judge Orders Halt to Trump's $20M Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Ads (First Report)
A federal judge in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order Sunday evening, Oct. 11, directing the Trump administration to immediately stop airing campaign-style advertisements paid for with taxpayer money and to cancel all remaining airings, effective 6:45 p.m. ET.
According to CNN, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon granted the order sought by a coalition led by the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause, which had challenged the ad buys in New York federal court. The Justice Department told the court late Saturday that the ad push was set to end Sunday night, making the order unnecessary; Rochon ruled that the timing did not render the lawsuit moot and ordered the government to halt any further airings.
The administration allocated $20 million for the ads, drawn from U.S. Customs and Border Protection via the Department of Homeland Security and classified as public service announcements. In a sworn declaration, senior DHS official Holly Mehringer said the advertising firm LMD Agency Inc. purchased media buys through Sunday, Oct. 11, at an approximate cost of $19 million - meaning about $19 million in taxpayer money had already been spent. Mehringer added that DHS had directed LMD not to make any additional media buys past Oct. 11 and that there were no plans for more.
The ads began airing in late September. At least 13 campaign-style spots ran on CBS, CNN, MS NOW, Fox News, Fox and streaming platforms, featuring Trump promoting his policies and warning against communism and a final battle with globalists, each ending with a 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' disclaimer. CNN previously reported that Trump personally helped select some of the ads' imagery.
The campaign drew bipartisan concern from lawmakers. Legal experts say using congressionally appropriated funds for political publicity violates federal law. On Oct. 5, Trump said he had decided to pay for the patriotic ads himself, with his own money and funds raised for MAGA, Inc.; six days later, the taxpayer-funded ads were still airing.
Rochon's order lasts 14 days and bars the defendants from entering into, renewing or expanding any agreement for the production, dissemination or airing of the challenged ads during that period. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A final ruling on the ads' legality is still pending.
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