Disney Sues Trump's FCC

Disney has had enough and is taking FCC Chair Brendan Carr straight to federal court.

In a newly filed First Amendment lawsuit, the Mouse House is attempting to block Carr from targeting ABC’s broadcast licenses, arguing the administration is running a retaliatory censorship campaign simply because it dislikes the network's coverage. Backed by powerhouse conservative litigator Paul Clement, Disney claims the ongoing regulatory threats are designed to intimidate the entire broadcast industry into fall-in-line compliance.

The pressure is already chilling operations inside the network. According to the filing, producers at The View have grown gun-shy, freezing all political candidate bookings since early February and ditching candidate clips they would normally air just to avoid handing the FCC fresh ammunition.

Carr has stayed quiet so far, but with Disney finally drawing a hard legal line, this broadcast fight just escalated in a major way.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation weighed in on the lawsuit:

“It’s about time for someone to take Carr and his FCC to court over their endless campaign of intimidation and retaliation against journalism that displeases Carr’s thin-skinned boss. No matter what pretexts he asserts, Carr’s modus operandi is clear: to serve as Trump’s censorship czar and abuse his office to repeatedly and exclusively target Trump’s perceived adversaries in the media, whether through sham proceedings or threatening letters and X posts. Carr knows the FCC is not the journalism police and said so regularly himself before he decided to throw away any integrity he once had to kiss up to Trump. Countless others whose First Amendment rights have been chilled by Carr’s antics should follow Disney’s lead.”