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At last, ABC has sued the FCC over its retaliatory, unconstitutional campaign against ABC for broadcasting speech Trump dislikes—and refusing to carry Trump’s election fraud claims ABC’s First Amendment arguments couldn't be stronger. Our press release ⤵️

ABC’s suit lays bare how the FCC is weaponizing its early renewal procedure to punish the network for allowing its show hosts to criticize the administration. The message to all broadcasters: dissent at your own peril.

Mark Fowler, Reagan's first FCC Chair (1981-87), put it best in his sworn declaration supporting ABC's lawsuit: "Never in its history has the agency ever acted so corruptly and unlawfully to intrude on broadcasters’ First Amendment rights." techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Courts will see through whatever pretext the FCC uses to justify its mafia shakedown of ABC, or to delay judicial review. The First Amendment requires the court to enjoin any further harassment of ABC and other broadcasters.

Commissioner Anna Gomez continues to defend the First Amendment x.com/AGomezFCC/st...

We couldn't be prouder of the coalition of over a dozen former FCC Chairs, Commissioners and other senior leaders of both parties we built with @protectdemocracy.org to oppose the FCC's attacks on ABC's broadcast licenses techfreedom.org/techfreedom-...

This was on top of our own detailed filing explaining the unlawfulness of the FCC requiring ABC to beg for renewal of its licenses years before they expire techfreedom.org/fcc-cant-use...

Last year, our bipartisan coalition asked the FCC to repeal its news distortion policy, the primary weapon Chair Carr has used to justify retaliating against speech he and Trump don't like protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...

We've also led opposition to the FCC's crackdown on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸's First Amendment right to decide which political candidates to interview techfreedom.org/50-free-spee...

We also filed our own more detailed comments debunking the FCC's claim that "fake news" TV shows (but not radio shows!) must provide "equal time" to the rivals of political candidates they interview techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...