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ABC Alleges FCC’s Attempts to Curb Its Free Speech Were Designed to Evade Judicial Review

ABC says the FCC ignored decades-old enforcement tools and instead sought early renewals for all eight of its stations in a DEI probe.

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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 o…

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Disney and ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday of using the license renewal process to circumvent "judicial review" and inflict

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wfmd.com broke the news on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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