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'Don’t want to be here either': Judge shades Trump admin at Disney hearing
What happened
Disney is suing President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission to block an unusually early review of its local television stations. According to AlterNet, Disney alleges that the review—amid Trump’s repeated demands that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel and his attacks on The View—is retaliation for protected speech.
At a Tuesday hearing in Washington, Disney attorney Beth Wilkinson said, “We don’t want to be here.” U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan replied, “I don’t want to be here either,” according to Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Flint. The remark referred to the…
The skinny
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