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Getty Images ABC, in a new filing in its First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, claims that the agency’s early-license renewal demand for its local TV stations was done in such a way as to circumvent “judicial review.”
On Aug. 18, ABC sued the FCC and chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump loyalist, alleging the commission was waging an “extraordinary assault” on its First Amendment rights through the implicit threat of revoking its broadcast licenses for eight owned-and-operated stations. The FCC insists its order requiring ABC to apply for early license renewals was initiated from the agency’s investigation into alleged diversity, equity and inclusion employment practices at Disney and ABC.
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