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'Nuts!' Judge hears 'damning' ABC arguments as experts tear into Trump's FCC chair live
What happened
RawStory reports that ABC and Disney asked U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan to block FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s unusually early review of licenses held by eight ABC-owned stations. Carr ordered the April review one day after President Donald Trump urged ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. ABC alleges that the administration is targeting constitutionally protected programming it dislikes.
At Tuesday’s hearing in Washington, the government characterized the action as part of an investigation into ABC’s hiring practices and disputed the district court’s authority to intervene. ABC argued that…
The skinny
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